NST to EST Converter
Quick answers
NST is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of EST. NST uses GMT -3:30, and EST uses GMT -5 for this comparison.
For example, 8:30 am NST is 7:00 am EST. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 10:30am-5pm NST, which is 9am-3:30pm EST.
EST is a fixed UTC-5 standard-time offset. For current Eastern Time, compare NST to EDT or NST to ET.
Compare NST time with EST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Newfoundland Standard Time is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time
8:30 am08:30 in NST is 7:00 am07:00 in EST
NST to EST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10:30am-5pm in NST which corresponds to 9am-3:30pm in EST
8:30 am08:30 Newfoundland Standard Time (NST). Offset UTC -3:30 hours
7:00 am07:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 NST / 7:00 am07:00 EST
| NST | EST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 10:30 pm |
| 1am | 11:30 pm |
| 2am | 12:30 am |
| 3am | 1:30 am |
| 4am | 2:30 am |
| 5am | 3:30 am |
| 6am | 4:30 am |
| 7am | 5:30 am |
| 8am | 6:30 am |
| 9am | 7:30 am |
| 10am | 8:30 am |
| 11am | 9:30 am |
| 12pm (noon) | 10:30 am |
| 1pm | 11:30 am |
| 2pm | 12:30 pm |
| 3pm | 1:30 pm |
| 4pm | 2:30 pm |
| 5pm | 3:30 pm |
| 6pm | 4:30 pm |
| 7pm | 5:30 pm |
| 8pm | 6:30 pm |
| 9pm | 7:30 pm |
| 10pm | 8:30 pm |
| 11pm | 9:30 pm |
| 00:00 | 22:30 |
| 01:00 | 23:30 |
| 02:00 | 00:30 |
| 03:00 | 01:30 |
| 04:00 | 02:30 |
| 05:00 | 03:30 |
| 06:00 | 04:30 |
| 07:00 | 05:30 |
| 08:00 | 06:30 |
| 09:00 | 07:30 |
| 10:00 | 08:30 |
| 11:00 | 09:30 |
| 12:00 | 10:30 |
| 13:00 | 11:30 |
| 14:00 | 12:30 |
| 15:00 | 13:30 |
| 16:00 | 14:30 |
| 17:00 | 15:30 |
| 18:00 | 16:30 |
| 19:00 | 17:30 |
| 20:00 | 18:30 |
| 21:00 | 19:30 |
| 22:00 | 20:30 |
| 23:00 | 21:30 |
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
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