Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Current time in United States
Time zone: AKDT (UTC/GMT -08:00) — America/Anchorage
| Standard Time Zone: Alaska Standard Time (AKST) = UTC-9 Daylight Saving Time Zone: Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT) = UTC-8Anchorage is one hour behind the Pacific Time Zone, and receives the same network feed as the West Coast.Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska. |
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Anchorage clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Anchorage keeps AKDT (8 hours behind UTC, UTC-08:00). Its database zone is America/Anchorage — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Anchorage observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes AKST.
United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Anchorage.
How far ahead or behind is Anchorage?
How Anchorage lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Anchorage is 4 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Anchorage is 1 hour behind |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Anchorage is 9 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Anchorage is 10 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Anchorage is 12 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Anchorage is 13 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Anchorage is 16 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Anchorage is 17 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Anchorage is 18 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Anchorage is 5 hours behind |
Scheduling calls with Anchorage
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Anchorage time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Los Angeles | 09:00–16:00 in Anchorage | 7 hours overlap |
| New York | 09:00–13:00 in Anchorage | 4 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–12:00 in Anchorage | 3 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with London, Paris, Dubai or Mumbai, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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