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- Labor Day7 Sept 2026
- Columbus Day12 Oct 2026
- Halloween31 Oct 2026
- Veterans Day11 Nov 2026
- Thanksgiving Day26 Nov 2026
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About Anchorage
Home to roughly 291,538 residents, Anchorage is a small but established city in United States. Its terrain rests around 31 m of elevation.
Anchorage keeps time on the America/Anchorage IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subarctic belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (61.22°).
Locally, prices are quoted in USD and the international dialing code is +1. This page exposes Anchorage's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Anchorage
The current local time in Anchorage, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Anchorage uses the IANA time zone America/Anchorage, currently UTC−8.
Whether Anchorage observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Anchorage) is the source of truth.
Anchorage is currently 4 hours behind New York.
Anchorage is currently 9 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Anchorage are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (61.2181, -149.9003).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Anchorage sits at 61.2181° N, 149.9003° W, 31 m above sea level, in United States.