Current time in Fairbanks, United States
The current local time in Fairbanks is shown below. Fairbanks observes AKST in winter and AKDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Fairbanks?
Fairbanks uses Alaska Standard Time at UTC-9 in winter and Alaska Daylight Time at UTC-8 in summer, switching on the federal DST schedule. The high latitude of around 64.8 degrees north produces extreme seasonal day-length variation: the winter solstice produces just under four hours of daylight, while the summer solstice approaches 22 hours with sustained twilight through the night. Most of mainland Alaska shares this single offset following the 1983 consolidation from four zones to one, with the Aleutian Islands using a separate offset further west.
What are the working hours in Fairbanks?
Fairbanks's working economy combines the substantial military presence at Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (which houses much of the state's Arctic research), and the resource extraction sector (the trans-Alaska pipeline begins at Prudhoe Bay further north, with Fairbanks as the main interior staging point). Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in conventional sectors. The World Ice Art Championships in February and March and the Midnight Sun Festival on the summer solstice are the major seasonal events.
Where is Fairbanks?
Fairbanks sits in the Tanana Valley of interior Alaska, around 580 kilometres north of Anchorage and 320 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. The municipal population is around 32,000 with the wider Fairbanks North Star Borough at around 95,000, making it the second-largest city in Alaska. The geography is low-lying river valley between the Alaska Range to the south and the White Mountains to the north, with the Chena River running through the centre. The interior position produces an exceptionally large annual temperature range, from -50 degrees in midwinter to above 30 degrees in summer.