UTC to EST Converter

12:00 UTC is 8:00 AM in New York in summer (EDT) and 7:00 AM in winter (EST). UTC never changes, so only the New York side moves.

UTC and EST right now

UTC to EST time chart

Each hour of the day in UTC and the same moment in Eastern Time. The gap changes during the year, so each version gets its own column.

Working hours, 9 AM–5 PMNight, 10 PM–7 AM

When the difference changes

UTC never changes, so the gap moves only when US clocks do. Changes in the coming year:

• ←Sunday, November 1, 2026US clocks go back 1 hour at 2:00 AM. Eastern Time is then 5 hours behind UTC.
• →Sunday, March 14, 2027US clocks go forward 1 hour at 2:00 AM. Eastern Time is then 4 hours behind UTC.

Standard or daylight time?

Strictly, EST is standard time. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November the clocks show EDT instead. Most people keep writing EST all year to mean the zone, and this page does the same: times follow the clocks in New York whatever the season.

Reading UTC times

Servers, logs, flight plans and weather reports use UTC because it never changes for daylight saving. It is usually written on a 24-hour clock, sometimes with a Z (“Zulu”) on the end: 18:00Z is 18:00 UTC, which is 2:00 PM EDT or 1:00 PM EST.

Midnight UTC is the evening before in New York: 8:00 PM EDT in summer, 7:00 PM EST in winter. A deadline set for 00:00 UTC on the 15th passes on the evening of the 14th on the East Coast.

GMT is the same clock as UTC; the GMT to EST page explains how it differs from UK time.

Related conversions

• UTC to PST
• PST to EST
• CST to EST
• EST to CST
• Florida time zone
• All conversions
• Time difference calculator

Sources

• Wikipedia — Coordinated Universal Time
• Wikipedia — Eastern Time Zone
• 15 U.S.C. § 260a — Advancement of time (daylight saving period)
• IANA Time Zone Database

Last checked October 21, 2026.