| 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 |
Quebec City, 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. Quebec City 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 Quebec City lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Quebec City 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 Quebec City lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Quebec City 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 Quebec City.
Quebec City (Canada) is home to roughly 550K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:42, sunset at 18:27. 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 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Toronto
Coordinates
46.81°N, 71.21°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Quebec City is the only city in North America north of Mexico with its original fortified walls intact — about 4.6 kilometres of them, which is why UNESCO listed the old town in 1985.
The clock: Quebec keeps Eastern Time. Its Winter Carnival, running since 1955, is the largest of its kind and takes place in a month whose average high stays below −5°C.
Quebec City lies at 71.2°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 3.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 15 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:45 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 45 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:45.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 32m. The swing between them is 7h 20m. 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 Quebec City the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 04:50, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 20:43. 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 Quebec City that civil twilight runs about 30 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 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 Quebec City, Canada is America/Toronto with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Quebec City has an estimated population of 550K and is located at coordinates 46.81°N, 71.21°W.
Quebec City gets 15h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Quebec City falls at about 11:45 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 3.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Only Walled City North of Mexico: Quebec City is the only city in North America north of Mexico with its original fortified walls intact — about 4.6 kilometres of them, which is why UNESCO listed the old town in 1985.