Time in Anchorage

Anchorage: Alaska Time (AKDT, UTC−9 in winter, UTC−8 in summer). US daylight saving applies.

Civil time in Anchorage is Alaska Time (AKDT, UTC−9 in winter, UTC−8 in summer). In mid-January the sun is up around 9:58 a.m. and down around 4:20 p.m.

Anchorage is Alaska Time (UTC−9 / UTC−8). Winter daylight is short; June barely gets dark.

When it is noon in Anchorage it is 4 p.m. in New York all year. When it is noon in Anchorage it is 9 p.m. in London all year.

Anchorage is about 60 minutes of solar time west of the Alaska Time meridian. Winter sunrises run later than in towns farther east that share the same offset.

Sunrise and sunset in Anchorage

A typical mid-January day in Anchorage has sunrise around 9:58 a.m. and sunset around 4:20 p.m. (6 h 22 m of daylight). Mid-June stretches to about 4:22 a.m.–11:40 p.m. (19 h 18 m).

MonthSunriseSunsetDay length
January9:58 a.m.4:20 p.m.6 h 22 m
February8:44 a.m.5:45 p.m.9 h 01 m
March8:19 a.m.8:00 p.m.11 h 41 m
April6:40 a.m.9:20 p.m.14 h 40 m
May5:14 a.m.10:39 p.m.17 h 26 m
June4:22 a.m.11:40 p.m.19 h 18 m
July4:51 a.m.11:21 p.m.18 h 30 m
August6:08 a.m.10:02 p.m.15 h 54 m
September7:26 a.m.8:25 p.m.13 h 00 m
October8:41 a.m.6:51 p.m.10 h 09 m
November9:05 a.m.4:25 p.m.7 h 20 m
December10:09 a.m.3:41 p.m.5 h 32 m

Mid-month local times for 2026. Hills, weather, and the exact street change what you see by a few minutes.

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