Montreal
UTC−4Canada · EDT
Sat, 8 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Montreal, Canada runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Montreal and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Montreal lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 5-hour difference between Montreal and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Montreal lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. There is a 13-hour difference between Montreal and Tokyo. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Caracas, Havana. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Montreal.
Practical Info
Montreal (Canada) is home to roughly 4.3M people. Today brings about 15.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:12, sunset at 20:48. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 46° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Toronto
Coordinates
45.50°N, 73.57°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
A City That Prices the Weather by the Centimetre
Every centimetre of snow costs Montreal about one million dollars to remove.
That is the city's own working figure, and it is the most useful number for understanding the place. The annual snow budget runs to roughly $197–200 million — about 3% of Montreal's entire municipal budget, and more than any other city in Canada spends by a wide margin.
The operation behind it:
- Roughly 10,000 to 11,000 kilometres of streets, plus sidewalks and some bike paths
- Nearly 3,000 workers and 2,500 vehicles deployed each winter
- About 300,000 truckloads of snow hauled per season, to more than 20 dumps
- Around 200,000 tonnes of road salt and abrasives bought each year, stored in 30 municipal garages
- Roughly 12 million cubic metres of snow removed in a typical winter
- 600 observation points to measure the thickness of ice left behind after clearing
Crews monitor conditions 24 hours a day through the winter and pre-treat major roads before a storm when the forecast allows. During a loading operation, temporary no-parking signs go up; cars still there are towed at the owner's expense.
The reason Montreal cannot simply push the snow aside, as smaller cities do, is a combination of three things: it is North America's snowiest major city, its downtown is dense enough that there is nowhere to put the snow, and it is too cold for the snow to melt on its own. So it has to be lifted, loaded and driven away.
The clock: which makes the whole thing a timed operation rather than a cleaning job.
Snow that is not removed before the next freeze-thaw cycle becomes ice, blocks drains and has to be chipped out instead of lifted. The city is not fighting snowfall; it is racing a temperature curve. In February 2025 one operation alone was projected to cost more than $50 million, and the mayor told reporters there was no predicted finishing date.
Montreal itself sits at about 73.5° west, on Eastern Time, which is calculated for the 75th meridian. That leaves the city roughly six minutes behind its own solar noon — one of the small number of places on this site where the sun reaches midday before the clock does.
A city that measures weather in dollars per centimetre, and whose own clock is six minutes late.
Sources
- CBC News, *Montreal to spend nearly $200M on snow removal* (yıllık ~197-200 milyon dolar bütçe; ~10.000 km cadde; santimetre başına ~1 milyon dolar; 20'den fazla döküm sahası; Kanada'da başka hiçbir şehrin yaklaşamaması; yoğun merkez ve erimeyecek kadar soğuk olma gerekçesi; icra komitesi üyesi Maja Vodanovic'in açıklamaları)
- Montréal Paysagement Pro / CBC derlemesi (yaklaşık 3.000 işçi, 2.500 araç, 11.000 km yol; sezon başına 300.000 kamyon dolusu; yılda 200.000 ton tuz ve aşındırıcı, 30 garajda; kar bütçesinin belediye bütçesinin ~%3'ü; 24 saat izleme; çekilen araçlar)
- CBC News, *Montreal's new 'proactive' snow-clearing plan* (normal kışta ~12 milyon metreküp kar; 600 gözlem noktası)
- CBC News, Şubat 2025 (tek operasyonun 50 milyon doları aşması; bitiş tarihinin öngörülememesi)
- Boylam hesabı: Montreal 73,55°B, Doğu Saati meridyeni 75°B → ~6 dakika **geride**
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
5h overlap