Gakona in numbers
- Coordinates
- 62.3014, -145.3030
- Elevation
- 434 m above sea level
- Population
- 218
- Region
- Alaska
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 5157 km away
What time is it in Gakona, Alaska, United States
Use this page to see what time it is in Gakona, Alaska, United States — the America/Anchorage zone applies there (−8).
Gakona, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−8 · America/Anchorage
Local time in Gakona
UTC−8 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Gakona, Alaska.
The sun today
Sunrise 8:30 AM Solar noon 1:28 PM Sunset 6:25 PM Daylight 9 h 55 min Night 14 h 05 min Civil twilight 7:44 AM – 7:11 PM
Weather in Gakona right now
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Gakona and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 99586
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Alaska
- Anchorage 289 600
- Fairbanks 32 325
- Juneau 31 555
- Eagle River 24 793
- Badger 19 482
- Knik-Fairview 14 923
Nearby places
- Gakona Junction — 2.9 km
- Gulkana — 5.3 km
- Glennallen — 24.8 km
- Copperville — 26.3 km
- Tazlina — 27.7 km
- Copperville — 29.3 km
Time and daylight in Gakona
The sun rises over Gakona today at 8:30 AM and slips away at 6:25 PM. That leaves 9 h 55 min of daylight.
Gakona and nearby Gakona Junction and Gulkana are never an hour apart.
The register holds 1 postal code for Gakona.
Gakona reads its time from America/Anchorage, placed at UTC−8. Whether daylight saving time is observed: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone contains Gakona?
- Gakona is in America/Anchorage, which has an offset of −8.
- Is summer time in effect in Gakona at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Gakona: Yes.
- When does the sun appear in Gakona?
- It appears at 8:30 AM.