EST to UTC Converter
Time Difference
Eastern Standard Time is 5 hours behind Universal Time Coordinated
8:30 pm20:30 in EST is 1:30 am01:30 in UTC
EST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-12pm in EST which corresponds to 2pm-5pm in UTC
8:30 pm20:30 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
1:30 am01:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:30 pm20:30 EST / 1:30 am01:30 UTC
| EST | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 5am |
| 1am | 6am |
| 2am | 7am |
| 3am | 8am |
| 4am | 9am |
| 5am | 10am |
| 6am | 11am |
| 7am | 12pm (noon) |
| 8am | 1pm |
| 9am | 2pm |
| 10am | 3pm |
| 11am | 4pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 5pm |
| 1pm | 6pm |
| 2pm | 7pm |
| 3pm | 8pm |
| 4pm | 9pm |
| 5pm | 10pm |
| 6pm | 11pm |
| 7pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 8pm | 1am |
| 9pm | 2am |
| 10pm | 3am |
| 11pm | 4am |
| 0:00 | 5:00 |
| 1:00 | 6:00 |
| 2:00 | 7:00 |
| 3:00 | 8:00 |
| 4:00 | 9:00 |
| 5:00 | 10:00 |
| 6:00 | 11:00 |
| 7:00 | 12:00 |
| 8:00 | 13:00 |
| 9:00 | 14:00 |
| 10:00 | 15:00 |
| 11:00 | 16:00 |
| 12:00 | 17:00 |
| 13:00 | 18:00 |
| 14:00 | 19:00 |
| 15:00 | 20:00 |
| 16:00 | 21:00 |
| 17:00 | 22:00 |
| 18:00 | 23:00 |
| 19:00 | 0:00 |
| 20:00 | 1:00 |
| 21:00 | 2:00 |
| 22:00 | 3:00 |
| 23:00 | 4:00 |
Eastern Standard Time
Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: BahamasCanadaHaitiJamaicaCayman IslandsMexicoPanamaTurks & Caicos IsUnited States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are TorontoMontrealBrooklynBorough of Queens
French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est
Spanish: ET - Tiempo del EsteET - Zona Sureste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezonehowever during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) started on Sunday November 22025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday November 22025 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) ends on Sunday March 82026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday March 82026 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time starts annually the on second Sunday of March.
EST representationsusage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- America/Atikokan
- America/Cancun
- America/Cayman
- America/Coral_Harbour
- America/Detroit
- America/Fort_Wayne
- America/Grand_Turk
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- America/Indiana/Marengo
- America/Indiana/Petersburg
- America/Indiana/Vevay
- America/Indiana/Vincennes
- America/Indiana/Winamac
- America/Indianapolis
- America/Iqaluit
- America/Jamaica
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Panama
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST
- EST5EDT
- Jamaica
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual useUTC is the same as GMTbut is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fieldslike aviation industry and meteorologistsalso used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representationsusage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offsetalso known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone