Current Hawaii Time in USA

Time and Date

Current Hawaii Time

UTC/ GMT* Details

Standard UTC/GMT: -10 hours
Daylight Saving Time (DST): DST is not observed in Hawaii in 2017. However, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands is during the summer months.

Extra Details

Time Zones in United States.




Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) or UTC/GMT -10


The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone observes Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST), which is minus ten hours from Greenwich Mean Time (UTC/GMT -10). The time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 150th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory.


The name of the time zone is a combination of the two areas where it is followed: Hawaii and the portion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands west of 169° 30′ W longitude. During daylight saving time (DST) the Alaskan portion of the time zone observes Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time (HADT), during this time period the time difference from GMT is -9 hours. Hawaii part of the time zone is following standard time year-round (UTC/GMT -10).


Daylight

Saving Time Information

Hawaii does not follow daylight saving time while Aleutian Islands do. For the Aleutian Islands the time changes are as follows:


to daylight saving time; from HAST to HADT at 02:00 LST to 03:00 LDT on the second Sunday in March
to standard time; from HADT to HAST at 02:00 LDT to 01:00 LST on the first Sunday in November.

Major Cities

in Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone

Adak, Alaska
Honolulu, Hawaii

North American

Time Zones

North American Time Zones
Hours from UTC/GMT Standard Time Daylight Saving Time
-10 Hawaii-Aleutian
-9 Alaska Hawaii-Aleutian
-8 Pacific Alaska
-7 Mountain Pacific
-6 Central Mountain
-5 Eastern Central
-4 Atlantic Eastern
-3:30 New Foundland
-3 Atlantic
-2:30 New Foundland

Comment

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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. GMT and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) can be seen equivalent when fractions of a second are not important.