Current time in Anchorage

Time zone in Anchorage

Anchorage is in Alaska, United States and uses the America/Anchorage time zone. Anchorage observes daylight saving time. It uses Alaska Standard Time (UTC-09:00) in the standard-time part of the year and Alaska Daylight Time (UTC-08:00) during summer time.

Sunrise and sunset in Anchorage

Sun and clock in Anchorage

Anchorage lies about 15° west of the meridian its time zone is built around, so the sun runs late against the clock. Averaged over the year, solar noon does not arrive until 13:00 in standard time, which makes mornings darker and evenings lighter than the clock alone would suggest. Summer time moves that an hour later still, to about 14:00.

Daylight through the year in Anchorage

At 61.2°N latitude, Anchorage sees its longest day around the June solstice, when the sun is above the horizon for about 19 h 22 m. The shortest day comes six months later at roughly 5 h 27 m, a swing of about 13 h 56 m between midsummer and midwinter.

This far from the equator the seasons dominate the day: midsummer evenings stay light late, midwinter afternoons end early, and the two extremes are 13 h 56 m apart.

On the June solstice the sun rises in Anchorage at about 04:20 and sets at about 23:42; on the December solstice it rises at about 10:14 and sets at about 15:41.

How these figures are worked out

When the clocks change in Anchorage

Anchorage follows the North American rule: clocks go forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November, at 02:00 local time in each zone.

The next two changes in Anchorage:

Of the cities compared further down this page, New York, London and Sydney do change their clocks, so their difference from Anchorage moves by an hour twice a year; Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo do not, so those differences never change.

Calling Anchorage from another time zone

A working day of roughly 09:00 to 17:00 in Anchorage corresponds to 18:00–02:00 UTC. To find the equivalent window where you are, add your own offset to those hours: somewhere on UTC+00:00 would be looking at 18:00–02:00.

Taking a working day as 09:00 to 17:00 in each place:

• New York overlaps for only 4 hours, from 09:00 to 13:00 Anchorage time — late in the day at one end and early at the other.
• London has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 00:00 in Anchorage, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.
• Tokyo has no overlap at all: when it is 09:00 there, it is already 16:00 in Anchorage, so a call means an early start or a late finish for someone.

These windows use the offsets in force on 2026-10-09; where one side observes daylight saving and the other does not, they move by an hour twice a year.

Time difference from your location

Anchorage compared with other cities

• Anchorage → New York
• Anchorage → London
• Anchorage → Dubai
• Anchorage → New Delhi
• Anchorage → Singapore
• Anchorage → Tokyo
• Anchorage → Sydney

Nearby cities

Anchorage is the only place in this directory on America/Anchorage; the nearby cities listed below all keep different zones. The nearest listed city on a different zone is Vancouver, about 2130 km away on America/Vancouver, currently 1 h ahead of Anchorage.

• Seattle
• San Francisco
• Las Vegas
• Denver
• Los Angeles
• Phoenix
• Chicago
• Dallas

Time zone rules: IANA tz database release 2026c, applied when this page was generated on 2026-10-09. Sun times: NOAA solar equations for 61.22°N, 149.90°W, flat horizon at sea level.

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