EST to AFT Converter
Quick answers
EST is 9 hours and 30 minutes behind AFT. EST uses GMT -5, and AFT uses GMT +4:30 for this comparison.
For example, 7:00 am EST is 4:30 pm AFT. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 8am-9am EST, which is 5:30pm-6:30pm AFT.
EST is a fixed UTC-5 standard-time offset. For current Eastern Time, compare EDT to AFT or ET to AFT.
Compare EST time with AFT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Eastern Standard Time is 9 hours and 30 minutes behind Afghanistan Time
7:00 am07:00 in EST is 4:30 pm16:30 in AFT
EST to AFT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-9am in EST which corresponds to 5:30pm-6:30pm in AFT
7:00 am07:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
4:30 pm16:30 Afghanistan Time (AFT). Offset UTC +4:30 hours
7:00 am07:00 EST / 4:30 pm16:30 AFT
| EST | AFT |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 9:30 am |
| 1am | 10:30 am |
| 2am | 11:30 am |
| 3am | 12:30 pm |
| 4am | 1:30 pm |
| 5am | 2:30 pm |
| 6am | 3:30 pm |
| 7am | 4:30 pm |
| 8am | 5:30 pm |
| 9am | 6:30 pm |
| 10am | 7:30 pm |
| 11am | 8:30 pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 9:30 pm |
| 1pm | 10:30 pm |
| 2pm | 11:30 pm |
| 3pm | 12:30 am |
| 4pm | 1:30 am |
| 5pm | 2:30 am |
| 6pm | 3:30 am |
| 7pm | 4:30 am |
| 8pm | 5:30 am |
| 9pm | 6:30 am |
| 10pm | 7:30 am |
| 11pm | 8:30 am |
| 00:00 | 09:30 |
| 01:00 | 10:30 |
| 02:00 | 11:30 |
| 03:00 | 12:30 |
| 04:00 | 13:30 |
| 05:00 | 14:30 |
| 06:00 | 15:30 |
| 07:00 | 16:30 |
| 08:00 | 17:30 |
| 09:00 | 18:30 |
| 10:00 | 19:30 |
| 11:00 | 20:30 |
| 12:00 | 21:30 |
| 13:00 | 22:30 |
| 14:00 | 23:30 |
| 15:00 | 00:30 |
| 16:00 | 01:30 |
| 17:00 | 02:30 |
| 18:00 | 03:30 |
| 19:00 | 04:30 |
| 20:00 | 05:30 |
| 21:00 | 06:30 |
| 22:00 | 07:30 |
| 23:00 | 08:30 |
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
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