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Time in Canada now

05:49:42PM

Monday, December 29, 2025

Canada has 6 time zones. The time zone for the capital Ottawa is used here.
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Time zone info for Canada

UTC -5

Eastern Time (ET)
always same time as New York

From 8 March 2026: UTC -4 / Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
The IANA time zone identifier for Canada is America/Toronto.

Sunday November 2 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC -5 / Eastern Standard Time (EST).
The time was set back one hour from 02:00AM to 01:00AM local time.

Sunday March 8 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC -4 / Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
The time will be set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Canada

Los Angeles	−3 hours	−3 hours
Chicago	−1 hours	−1 hours
New York	0
Toronto	0
São Paulo	+2 hours
London	+5 hours
UTC	+5 hours
Lagos	+6 hours
Paris	+6 hours
Zurich	+6 hours
Cairo	+7 hours
Johannesburg	+7 hours
Istanbul	+8 hours
Moscow	+8 hours
Dubai	+9 hours
Mumbai	+10.5 hours
Hong Kong	+13 hours
Shanghai	+13 hours
Singapore	+13 hours
Tokyo	+14 hours
Sydney	+16 hours

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Canada on the map

Continent: North America
Area: 9,984,670 km²
Capital: Ottawa
Currency: Dollar (CAD)
Calling code: +1
Internet top level domain: .ca
Latitude: 60.11. Longitude: -113.64
Population: 37,059,000

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Annual average temperatures
for Canada 1901-2021

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from Berkeley Earth.
See showyourstripes.info.

The 25 largest cities in
Canada