AKST to IST Converter
Time Difference
Alaska Daylight Time is 13 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time
11:00 am11:00 in AKDT is 12:30 am00:30 in IST
AKST to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30am-7:30am in AKST which corresponds to 8pm-10pm in IST
11:00 am11:00 Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
12:30 am00:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
11:00 am11:00 AKDT / 12:30 am00:30 IST
AKDT | IST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 1:30 pm |
1am | 2:30 pm |
2am | 3:30 pm |
3am | 4:30 pm |
4am | 5:30 pm |
5am | 6:30 pm |
6am | 7:30 pm |
7am | 8:30 pm |
8am | 9:30 pm |
9am | 10:30 pm |
10am | 11:30 pm |
11am | 12:30 am |
12pm (noon) | 1:30 am |
1pm | 2:30 am |
2pm | 3:30 am |
3pm | 4:30 am |
4pm | 5:30 am |
5pm | 6:30 am |
6pm | 7:30 am |
7pm | 8:30 am |
8pm | 9:30 am |
9pm | 10:30 am |
10pm | 11:30 am |
11pm | 12:30 pm |
0:00 | 13:30 |
1:00 | 14:30 |
2:00 | 15:30 |
3:00 | 16:30 |
4:00 | 17:30 |
5:00 | 18:30 |
6:00 | 19:30 |
7:00 | 20:30 |
8:00 | 21:30 |
9:00 | 22:30 |
10:00 | 23:30 |
11:00 | 0:30 |
12:00 | 1:30 |
13:00 | 2:30 |
14:00 | 3:30 |
15:00 | 4:30 |
16:00 | 5:30 |
17:00 | 6:30 |
18:00 | 7:30 |
19:00 | 8:30 |
20:00 | 9:30 |
21:00 | 10:30 |
22:00 | 11:30 |
23:00 | 12:30 |
Alaska Standard Time
Offset: AKST is 9 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AKST timezone is Anchorage from USA with population about 291,826 people. Other major cities in the area are Fairbanks, Juneau, Eagle River, Badger

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT).
End: Alaska Standard Time (AKST) has ended on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Alaska Standard Time (AKST) starts on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
AKST representations, usage and related time zones
- -09 - basic short
- -0900 - basic
- -09:00 - extended
- -0900 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates nine hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Victor - Military abbreviation for AKST
- V - short form of 'Victor'
- America/Anchorage
- America/Juneau
- America/Metlakatla
- America/Nome
- America/Sitka
- America/Yakutat
- US/Alaska
- AKST - Alaska Standard Time
- AHDT - Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time
- HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
- GAMT - Gambier Time
- HDT - Hawaii Daylight Time
- V - Victor Time Zone
India Standard Time
Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: India
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST timezone is Mumbai from India with population about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in the area are Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai
Daylight Saving: India Standard Time (IST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore IST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, India Standard Time remains the same

IST representations, usage and related time zones
- +0530 - basic
- +05:30 - extended
- +0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates five hour and thirty minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Asia/Calcutta
- Asia/Kolkata
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2