What timezone is Fairbanks in?

Fairbanks uses the IANA timezone America/Anchorage. The UTC offset is UTC-9 in winter (standard time) and UTC-8 during daylight saving time (summer).

Does Fairbanks observe daylight saving time?

Yes. Fairbanks observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-9 (standard time) to UTC-8 in summer.

What is the current UTC offset for Fairbanks?

Fairbanks is currently at UTC-8. It is currently observing daylight saving time.

What is the time difference between Fairbanks and New York?

Fairbanks is currently 4 hours behind New York.

What is the time difference between Fairbanks and London?

Fairbanks is currently 9 hours behind London.

Fairbanks, United States · UTC-8

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Fairbanks, Alaska’s second-largest city, sits at 64.8 degrees north in the state’s interior. It runs on America/Anchorage, UTC-9 in winter (AKST) and UTC-8 in summer (AKDT), with standard US DST dates. But the clock is almost irrelevant to what the sky is doing.

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Near the summer solstice, the sun rises at 2:58am AKDT and sets at 12:47am the next morning: nearly 22 hours of above-horizon sun. The weeks around the solstice are the Midnight Sun era, when it never fully gets dark. Fairbanks hosts the Midnight Sun Baseball Game each June 21st, an annual event where teams play an outdoor game at midnight with no artificial lights, a tradition dating to 1906.

By contrast, at the winter solstice, daylight in Fairbanks lasts just 3 hours and 42 minutes. December is dark from mid-afternoon. The University of Alaska Fairbanks, the city’s largest employer, runs full schedules through this darkness. Residents use full-spectrum lights and learn to detach sleep from the sky’s state. The clock at UTC-9 (-8 in summer) is the one navigable fixed point when the sun refuses to cooperate.

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IANA timezone America/Anchorage

Current offset UTC-8 (summer)

Standard time UTC-9

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Questions about time in Fairbanks

What timezone is Fairbanks in?: Fairbanks uses the IANA timezone America/Anchorage. The UTC offset is UTC-9 in winter (standard time) and UTC-8 during daylight saving time (summer).
Does Fairbanks observe daylight saving time?: Yes. Fairbanks observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-9 (standard time) to UTC-8 in summer.
What is the current UTC offset for Fairbanks?: Fairbanks is currently at UTC-8. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
What is the time difference between Fairbanks and New York?: Fairbanks is currently 4 hours behind New York.
What is the time difference between Fairbanks and London?: Fairbanks is currently 9 hours behind London.
What is the time difference between Fairbanks and Los Angeles?: Fairbanks is currently 1 hour behind Los Angeles.
What is the time difference between Fairbanks and Tokyo?: Fairbanks is currently 17 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Fairbanks transitions to/from DST.
What is the IANA timezone name for Fairbanks?: The IANA timezone database identifier for Fairbanks is America/Anchorage. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Anchorage' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/Anchorage')`), or any IANA-compatible library.

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