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AZT/AZST

Azerbaijan Time

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AZST is not used on this date.

This converter uses AZT (UTC+4), as in Baku.

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EDT/EST

Eastern Daylight Time

UTC−4

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Eastern Time is on daylight saving time: EDT (UTC−4) until Sun, Nov 1.

Use EST all year (UTC−5)

Quick answers

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4:00 pm16:00 AZT (UTC+4), Oct 18, 2026 = 8:00 am08:00 EDT (UTC-4), Oct 18, 2026

AZT is 8 hours ahead of EDT.

AZST and EST (US winter time, UTC-5) examples

These examples always use AZST (UTC+5) and EST (UTC-5). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

AZST is 10 hours ahead of EST.

EST is US Eastern winter time (early November to mid-March). The rest of the year New York uses EDT (UTC-4), one hour later. For Eastern Time that follows daylight saving time, use AZST to ET. For daylight-time examples, use AZT to EDT.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, AZT is 8 hours ahead of EDT. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, AZT is 9 hours ahead of EST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in AZT correspond to 1:00 am to 10:00 am in EDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in AZT correspond to 12:00 am to 9:00 am in EST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in AZT correspond to 01:00 to 10:00 in EDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in AZT correspond to 00:00 to 09:00 in EST.

Compare AZST time with EST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Azerbaijan Time is 8 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time.
4:00 pm16:00 in AZT is 8:00 am08:00 in EDT

AZT to EDT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in AZT which corresponds to 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in EDT

4:00 pm16:00 Azerbaijan Time (AZT). Offset UTC +4:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours

4:00 pm16:00 AZT / 8:00 am08:00 EDT

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Azerbaijan Summer Time

Offset: AZST is 5 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

AZST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+05 - basic short
+0500 - basic
+05:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0500 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Echo - Military abbreviation for AZST
E - short form of 'Echo'

Time zones with the GMT +5 offset:

ALMT - Alma-Ata Time
AMST - Armenia Summer Time
AQTT - Aqtobe Time
AZST - Azerbaijan Summer Time
E - Echo Time Zone
MAWT - Mawson Time
MVT - Maldives Time
ORAT - Oral Time
PKT - Pakistan Standard Time
QYZT - Qyzylorda Time
TFT - French Southern and Antarctic Time
TJT - Tajikistan Time
TMT - Turkmenistan Time
UZT - Uzbekistan Time
YEKT - Yekaterinburg Time
HMT - Heard and McDonald Islands Time

Eastern Standard Time

Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.804 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Montréal, Philadelphia, Port-au-Prince.

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

Map of the areas on Eastern Standard Time (EST) — EST all year EST part of the year
Today the lighter areas are on UTC−4 (EDT).
Open the world time zone map © OpenStreetMap

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) ended on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) starts on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

EST representations, usage and related time zones