Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is 4 hours ahead of Eastern Time (EST).

Here is every hour of the day in UTC and the same moment in EST.

The green rows are the hours when both zones are inside 9 AM to 5 PM. The row marked Now is the hour it is in Coordinated Universal Time right now.

A team split between UTC and ET is at work together for 4 hours a day.

Taking 9 AM to 5 PM on each clock as the working day, both zones are at work from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM UTC (9:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST).

A team spread across two time zones has fewer chances to notice someone drifting away. TeamPredict reads public LinkedIn signals to flag resignation risk early, wherever people work.

The gap between UTC and EST moves between 4 hours and 5 hours during the year.

Coordinated Universal Time never changes its clocks, but the United States does, so the gap moves by an hour each time Eastern Time moves.

These are the clock changes of both zones in 2026 and 2027.

UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time and EST for Eastern Time on this page.

UTC is the world's reference time, the zero point every other zone is measured from, and it never changes with the seasons.

Eastern Time is EST (UTC−5) in winter and EDT (UTC−4) in summer. People write EST all year, and this page does too; the clock reads EDT right now. It moves its clocks forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November.

These nearby time zone pairs show the time right now too.

• EST to UTC
• UTC to PST
• EST to PST
• EST to CST
• EST to MST
• EST to IST
• EST to GMT

The time zone converter reads one moment on up to 12 clocks, the military time converter turns 24-hour times into AM and PM, and the time duration calculator measures the hours between two moments.