Current time in Anchorage, AK
Alaska Time
UTC−08:00- Time zone
- Alaska Time · America/Anchorage
- UTC offset now
- UTC−08:00 AKDT
- Abbreviation
- AKST / AKDT
- Daylight saving
- Forward the second Sunday in March at 02:00, back the first Sunday in November at 02:00.
Clocks go back one hour on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 02:00 (AKDT → AKST).
- Difference from you
- —
- Location
- AK, United States · 61.22° N, 149.90° W
- Population
- 289,600
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Anchorage at about 13:00 standard time: the clock runs about 1 h ahead of the sun, a sign that the time zone is set far from local solar time. Over the year, solar noon falls between 12:43 and 14:10 on the local clock, including the hour added by daylight saving time.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 07:59 | 20:15 | 12h 16m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 04:20 | 23:42 | 19h 23m |
| September equinox (Sep 22) | 07:44 | 19:58 | 12h 14m |
| December solstice (Dec 21) | 10:14 | 15:41 | 5h 27m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 07:59–19:39 (11 h 40 min of daylight)
Times are local clock times for the city centre, computed with the NOAA solar equations; hills and refraction can shift them by a few minutes.
Nearby cities
- Whitehorse, Canada · 800 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Juneau · 920 km
- Anadyr, Russia · 1,670 km · clock 20 h ahead
- Fort St. John, Canada · 1,750 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Vancouver, Canada · 2,130 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Edmonton, Canada · 2,310 km · clock 2 h ahead