AFT to EDT Converter
EDT is not used on this date
This converter uses EST (GMT -5), the offset New York uses on this date. Open the EST converter.Quick answers
For most of the year, AFT is 8 hours and 30 minutes ahead of EDT. During seasonal clock changes, AFT is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of EST.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in AFT correspond to 12:30 am to 8:30 am in EDT. During seasonal clock changes, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in AFT correspond to 11:30 pm (previous day) to 7:30 am in EST.
Compare AFT time with EDT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Afghanistan Time is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time
4:30 pm16:30 in AFT is 7:00 am07:00 in EST
AFT to EST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30pm-6:30pm in AFT which corresponds to 8am-9am in EST
4:30 pm16:30 Afghanistan Time (AFT). Offset UTC +4:30 hours
7:00 am07:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
4:30 pm16:30 AFT / 7:00 am07:00 EST
| AFT | EST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 2:30 pm |
| 1am | 3:30 pm |
| 2am | 4:30 pm |
| 3am | 5:30 pm |
| 4am | 6:30 pm |
| 5am | 7:30 pm |
| 6am | 8:30 pm |
| 7am | 9:30 pm |
| 8am | 10:30 pm |
| 9am | 11:30 pm |
| 10am | 12:30 am |
| 11am | 1:30 am |
| 12pm (noon) | 2:30 am |
| 1pm | 3:30 am |
| 2pm | 4:30 am |
| 3pm | 5:30 am |
| 4pm | 6:30 am |
| 5pm | 7:30 am |
| 6pm | 8:30 am |
| 7pm | 9:30 am |
| 8pm | 10:30 am |
| 9pm | 11:30 am |
| 10pm | 12:30 pm |
| 11pm | 1:30 pm |
| 00:00 | 14:30 |
| 01:00 | 15:30 |
| 02:00 | 16:30 |
| 03:00 | 17:30 |
| 04:00 | 18:30 |
| 05:00 | 19:30 |
| 06:00 | 20:30 |
| 07:00 | 21:30 |
| 08:00 | 22:30 |
| 09:00 | 23:30 |
| 10:00 | 00:30 |
| 11:00 | 01:30 |
| 12:00 | 02:30 |
| 13:00 | 03:30 |
| 14:00 | 04:30 |
| 15:00 | 05:30 |
| 16:00 | 06:30 |
| 17:00 | 07:30 |
| 18:00 | 08:30 |
| 19:00 | 09:30 |
| 20:00 | 10:30 |
| 21:00 | 11:30 |
| 22:00 | 12:30 |
| 23:00 | 13:30 |
Afghanistan Time
Offset: AFT is 4 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries using this time zone: Afghanistan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AFT time zone is Kabul in Afghanistan, with about 3.044 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Kandahar, Mazar e Sharif, Herat, Jalalabad.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Afghanistan Time (AFT) do not change for daylight saving time, so AFT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
AFT representations, usage and related time zones
- +0430 - basic
- +04:30 - extended
- +0430 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
- AFT - Afghanistan Time
- IRDT - Iran Daylight Time
Eastern Daylight Time
Offset: EDT is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EDT 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: HAE - Heure Avancée de l'Est
Spanish: EDT - Tiempo de verano del Este, ET - Zona Sureste
Daylight Saving: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Eastern Standard Time (EST).
End: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) ended 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 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November
Start: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) starts 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. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March
EDT representations, usage and related time zones
- -04 - basic short
- -0400 - basic
- -04:00 - extended
- -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Quebec - Military abbreviation for EDT
- Q - short form of 'Quebec'
- 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/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST5EDT
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- AMT - Amazon Time
- BOT - Bolivia Time
- CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
- CLT - Chile Standard Time
- FKT - Falkland Island Time
- GYT - Guyana Time
- HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- Q - Quebec Time Zone
- VET - Venezuelan Standard Time