Local time · Canada
What time is it in Canada?
4:46:46AM
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not right now
- Time zones
- 10
- Versus New York
- Same time
Canada observes daylight saving
Canada is currently on standard time, UTC−5:00. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
All 10 zones
Canada spans 10 time zones, so “the time in Canada” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 23 zone entries for Canada; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.
- TorontoEastern - ON & QC (most areas) · 4:46 am · UTC−5:00
- St. John'sNewfoundland, Labrador (SE) · 6:16 am · UTC−3:30
- HalifaxAtlantic - NS (most areas), PE · 5:46 am · UTC−4:00
- Blanc-SablonAST - QC (Lower North Shore) · 5:46 am · UTC−4:00
- AtikokanEST - ON (Atikokan), NU (Coral H) · 4:46 am · UTC−5:00
- WinnipegCentral - ON (west), Manitoba · 4:46 am · UTC−5:00
- ReginaCST - SK (most areas) · 3:46 am · UTC−6:00
- EdmontonCST - AB, BC(E), NT(E), SK(W) · 3:46 am · UTC−6:00
- VancouverMST - BC (most areas) · 2:46 am · UTC−7:00
- WhitehorseMST - Yukon (east) · 2:46 am · UTC−7:00
Working with Canada from the US
Toronto is on the same clock as New York right now, so a time in one is the same time in the other.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Toronto today
- Sunrise
- 7:09 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:01 pm
The day is 9 hours 45 minutes long in Toronto, and losing 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Canada’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
The solar year swings 6 hours 31 minutes in Toronto: 15 hours 27 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 8 hours 56 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
Other countries
On UTC−5:00 right now, the same clock as Canada: