Time in Anchorage
United States · America/Anchorage · latitude 61.22°
Reading your clock…
Anchorage changes its clocks twice a year
Standard time is UTC-09:00 and daylight saving time is UTC-08:00. The shift is 1 hour, and it is the reason the distance between Anchorage and anywhere else is not a single number.
| Date | Local time | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 1 November 2026 | 02:00 → 01:00 | Back 60 min | UTC-09:00 |
| Sunday, 14 March 2027 | 02:00 → 03:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC-08:00 |
| Sunday, 7 November 2027 | 02:00 → 01:00 | Back 60 min | UTC-09:00 |
Time difference from Anchorage
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 9 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| New York | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| Los Angeles | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Chicago | 3 hours ahead | constant |
| Toronto | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| Paris | 10 hours ahead | +9h / +10h |
| Berlin | 10 hours ahead | +9h / +10h |
| Dubai | 12 hours ahead | +12h / +13h |
| Mumbai | 13 hours 30 minutes ahead | +13h30 / +14h30 |
| Singapore | 16 hours ahead | +16h / +17h |
| Hong Kong | 16 hours ahead | +16h / +17h |
| Tokyo | 17 hours ahead | +17h / +18h |
| Sydney | 18 hours ahead | +18h / +19h / +20h |
| Auckland | 20 hours ahead | +20h / +21h / +22h |
| São Paulo | 5 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| UTC | 8 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
Daylight in Anchorage through the year
From about 5.5 hours in December to 19.4 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 08:49 | 15:34 | 6h 45m |
| February | 07:29 | 17:01 | 9h 32m |
| March | 06:03 | 18:15 | 12h 12m |
| April | 04:25 | 19:35 | 15h 10m |
| May | 03:01 | 20:54 | 17h 53m |
| June | 02:20 | 21:43 | 19h 23m |
| July | 03:02 | 21:10 | 18h 8m |
| August | 04:21 | 19:45 | 15h 24m |
| September | 05:38 | 18:07 | 12h 29m |
| October | 06:55 | 16:34 | 9h 39m |
| November | 08:20 | 15:13 | 6h 53m |
| December | 09:15 | 14:42 | 5h 27m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Anchorage
What time zone is Anchorage in?
Anchorage uses the IANA time zone America/Anchorage, which is UTC-09:00 in standard time and UTC-08:00 while daylight saving is in force.
Does Anchorage observe daylight saving time?
Yes. Clocks in Anchorage move by 1 hour, and the next change is on Sunday, 1 November 2026.
Why does the time difference to Anchorage keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 8 hours ahead, then 9 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Anchorage get?
Around 19.4 hours at the longest, in June, and about 5.5 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Anchorage's latitude of 61.22° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.