Toronto
UTC−4Canada · EDT
Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Toronto, 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. Toronto 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 Toronto lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 5-hour difference between Toronto 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 Toronto lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. There is a 13-hour difference between Toronto 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 Caracas, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Toronto.
Practical Info
Toronto (Canada) is home to roughly 6.6M people. Today brings about 15.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:24, sunset at 20:42. 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 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Toronto
Coordinates
43.65°N, 79.38°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Toronto Declared War on Raccoons and Lost
In 2015, the Mayor of Toronto held a press conference to announce a new weapon. The city was going to spend CA$31 million on half a million new green bins with a rotating latch and a German gravity lock. Raccoons, the manufacturer explained, do not have opposable thumbs and therefore cannot turn a lever. Dozens of raccoons were tested against the prototype. Every one of them failed.
The mayor's line at the podium: "We are ready, we are armed."
Then the bins went out into the world.
Some raccoons worked out how to spin the latch anyway. Others found something better: the bins have a gravity lock that releases when tipped past 110 degrees — a deliberate feature, so that the robotic arm on a garbage truck can flip them and empty them. Raccoons discovered that they could simply push the bin over. The lock designed to make the bin work is the lock that made it fail.
The rest chewed through the plastic.
The city maintains, correctly, that with only a couple of dozen complaints against half a million bins, the programme is working fine. This position is technically defensible and has convinced absolutely nobody, because the videos keep coming.
The clock: Toronto sits at 79° west but runs on Eastern Time, a zone built around the 75th meridian. The clock is roughly eighteen minutes ahead of the sun.
You can watch it happen in the evening. Toronto's sunsets arrive noticeably later than New York's, even though both cities read the identical number off the identical clock. Same time zone, different sun. Toronto is simply standing further west, and has agreed not to bring it up.
Sources
- CBC News (2015 duyurusu ve 2016 dağıtımı; 31 milyon CAD; üretici Rehrig Pacific)
- Toronto Star, Amy Dempsey soruşturması
- NPR, *There's No Stopping Toronto's 'Uber-Raccoon'*
- 99% Invisible, *Raccoon Resistance*
- CBC (2018, 30 saniyede açan rakun)
- Boylam hesabı: Toronto 79,38°B, Doğu Saati meridyeni 75°B
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
2h overlap