EST to NST Converter
Quick answers
EST is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind NST. EST uses GMT -5, and NST uses GMT -3:30 for this comparison.
For example, 7:00 am EST is 8:30 am NST. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 9am-3:30pm EST, which is 10:30am-5pm NST.
EST is a fixed UTC-5 standard-time offset. For current Eastern Time, compare EDT to NST or ET to NST.
Compare EST time with NST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Eastern Standard Time is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind Newfoundland Standard Time
7:00 am07:00 in EST is 8:30 am08:30 in NST
EST to NST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3:30pm in EST which corresponds to 10:30am-5pm in NST
7:00 am07:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 Newfoundland Standard Time (NST). Offset UTC -3:30 hours
7:00 am07:00 EST / 8:30 am08:30 NST
| EST | NST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 1:30 am |
| 1am | 2:30 am |
| 2am | 3:30 am |
| 3am | 4:30 am |
| 4am | 5:30 am |
| 5am | 6:30 am |
| 6am | 7:30 am |
| 7am | 8:30 am |
| 8am | 9:30 am |
| 9am | 10:30 am |
| 10am | 11:30 am |
| 11am | 12:30 pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 1:30 pm |
| 1pm | 2:30 pm |
| 2pm | 3:30 pm |
| 3pm | 4:30 pm |
| 4pm | 5:30 pm |
| 5pm | 6:30 pm |
| 6pm | 7:30 pm |
| 7pm | 8:30 pm |
| 8pm | 9:30 pm |
| 9pm | 10:30 pm |
| 10pm | 11:30 pm |
| 11pm | 12:30 am |
| 00:00 | 01:30 |
| 01:00 | 02:30 |
| 02:00 | 03:30 |
| 03:00 | 04:30 |
| 04:00 | 05:30 |
| 05:00 | 06:30 |
| 06:00 | 07:30 |
| 07:00 | 08:30 |
| 08:00 | 09:30 |
| 09:00 | 10:30 |
| 10:00 | 11:30 |
| 11:00 | 12:30 |
| 12:00 | 13:30 |
| 13:00 | 14:30 |
| 14:00 | 15:30 |
| 15:00 | 16:30 |
| 16:00 | 17:30 |
| 17:00 | 18:30 |
| 18:00 | 19:30 |
| 19:00 | 20:30 |
| 20:00 | 21:30 |
| 21:00 | 22:30 |
| 22:00 | 23:30 |
| 23:00 | 00:30 |
Eastern Standard Time
Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens.
French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est
Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
EST representations, usage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- America/Atikokan
- America/Cancun
- America/Cayman
- America/Coral_Harbour
- America/Detroit
- America/Fort_Wayne
- America/Grand_Turk
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- America/Indiana/Marengo
- America/Indiana/Petersburg
- America/Indiana/Vevay
- America/Indiana/Vincennes
- America/Indiana/Winamac
- America/Indianapolis
- America/Iqaluit
- America/Jamaica
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Panama
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST
- EST5EDT
- Jamaica
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone
Newfoundland Standard Time
Offset: NST is 3 hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Canada
Principal Cities: The largest city in the NST time zone is St Johns in Canada, with about 99,182 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mount Pearl, Corner Brook, Conception Bay South.
French: HNT - Heure Normale de Terre-Neuve
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT).
Start: Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
NST representations, usage and related time zones
- -0330 - basic
- -03:30 - extended
- -0330 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours and thirty minutes to the west of the zero meridian.
- America/St_Johns
- Canada/Newfoundland