EST time now
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Eastern Standard Time.
- UTC offset
- UTC−5
- Time zone
- GMT-05:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Week
- 43
- Day of year
- 295 · 81%
- Moon
- 🌔 Waxing gibbous
- Unix time
- 1792727652
EST is the fixed winter offset, UTC−5. When daylight saving is active, the US East Coast is on EDT instead — see Eastern Time for the clock that follows the switch.
Time difference from EST
Los Angeles−2 hoursDenver−1 hourMexico City−1 hourChicago0New York+1 hourToronto+1 hourSão Paulo+2 hoursUTC+5 hoursLondon+6 hoursLagos+6 hoursParis+7 hoursJohannesburg+7 hoursCairo+8 hoursIstanbul+8 hoursMoscow+8 hoursDubai+9 hoursMumbai+10.5 hoursBangkok+12 hoursSingapore+13 hoursHong Kong+13 hoursTokyo+14 hoursSydney+16 hoursAuckland+18 hours