| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +4h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +8h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +12h | Becomes +13h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | −1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −4h | Becomes −3h on 31 Oct |
Halifax, Canada runs on UTC−3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Halifax and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Halifax lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Halifax and London is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Halifax lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Halifax and Tokyo is 12 hours. 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 Charlottetown, Fredericton, Hamilton. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Halifax.
Halifax (Canada) is home to roughly 440K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:10, sunset at 18:57. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 45° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
ADT · America/Halifax
Coordinates
44.65°N, 63.58°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
On 6 December 1917 a munitions ship detonated in Halifax harbour with a force estimated at roughly 2.9 kilotonnes of TNT — the largest artificial explosion in history until 1945. It killed about 1,800 people and flattened a large part of the city.
The clock: Halifax keeps Atlantic Time at UTC−4, one of only a handful of places in North America on that offset, an hour ahead of New York.
Halifax lies at 63.6°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 3.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 14 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:14 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 74 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:14.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 34m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 48m. The swing between them is 6h 46m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Halifax the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:28, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:04. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Halifax that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 37 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Halifax, Canada is America/Halifax with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Halifax has an estimated population of 440K and is located at coordinates 44.65°N, 63.58°W.
Halifax gets 15h 34m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 48m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Halifax falls at about 12:14 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 3.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Largest Accidental Explosion Before the Atom: On 6 December 1917 a munitions ship detonated in Halifax harbour with a force estimated at roughly 2.9 kilotonnes of TNT — the largest artificial explosion in history until 1945.