| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Kitchener, 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. Kitchener 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 Kitchener lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Kitchener and London is 5 hours. 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 Kitchener lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Kitchener and Tokyo is 13 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 Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Kitchener.
Kitchener (Canada) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:18, sunset at 19:05. 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 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Toronto
Coordinates
43.45°N, 80.49°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kitchener was called Berlin until 1916, when anti-German feeling during the First World War forced a referendum and a rename after the British field marshal. Its Oktoberfest is now the largest outside Germany.
The clock: Kitchener keeps Eastern Time. BlackBerry was built in neighbouring Waterloo, and the region is still one of Canada's main technology clusters.
Kitchener lies at 80.5°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 5.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 22 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:22 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 82 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:22.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 25m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 57m. The swing between them is 6h 28m. 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 Kitchener the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:40, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:07. 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 Kitchener that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Kitchener, Canada is America/Toronto with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Kitchener has an estimated population of 260K and is located at coordinates 43.45°N, 80.49°W.
Kitchener gets 15h 25m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 57m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kitchener falls at about 12:22 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 5.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Changed Its Name in Wartime: Kitchener was called Berlin until 1916, when anti-German feeling during the First World War forced a referendum and a rename after the British field marshal. Its Oktoberfest is now the largest outside Germany.