| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +10h | Becomes +9h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +12h | Becomes +13h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +17h | Becomes +18h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +18h | Becomes +19h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +4h | Becomes +3h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
Fairbanks, United States runs on UTC−8. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−9 in winter, UTC−8 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Fairbanks and New York is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Fairbanks lines up with 13:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Fairbanks and London is 9 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with London, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Fairbanks and Tokyo is 17 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Fairbanks lines up with 09:00–11:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Anchorage, Juneau. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Fairbanks.
Fairbanks (United States) is home to roughly 32K people. Today brings about 11.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:57, sunset at 19:24. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−9 in winter, UTC−8 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 65° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AKDT · America/Anchorage
Coordinates
64.84°N, 147.72°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Fairbanks sits at 64.8° north and swings from roughly 21 hours 50 minutes of daylight at the summer solstice to about 3 hours 40 minutes in December. Its baseball team plays an annual midnight game with no artificial lights.
The clock: Fairbanks keeps UTC−9 and is far enough north to see aurora on a majority of clear winter nights.
Fairbanks lies at 147.7°W. Its time zone, UTC−9, is built around the 135°W meridian. The 12.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 51 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:51 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 111 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:51.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 21h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 3h 42m. The swing between them is 18h 10m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Fairbanks the sun comes up earliest on 21 June at 02:57, while the latest sunset waits until 23 June at 00:48. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Fairbanks that civil twilight runs about 49 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 86 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Fairbanks, United States is America/Anchorage with a current UTC offset of UTC−8.
Fairbanks has an estimated population of 32K and is located at coordinates 64.84°N, 147.72°W.
Fairbanks gets 21h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 3h 42m on its shortest, averaging 12h 33m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Fairbanks falls at about 12:51 on UTC−9 standard time, because the city sits 12.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Nearly Twenty-Two Hours of Daylight, Then Under Four: Fairbanks sits at 64.8° north and swings from roughly 21 hours 50 minutes of daylight at the summer solstice to about 3 hours 40 minutes in December.