| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +10h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +15h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +16h | Becomes +17h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +2h | Becomes +1h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 1 Nov |
Yellowknife, Canada runs on UTC−6. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Yellowknife and New York is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Yellowknife lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Yellowknife and London is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Yellowknife lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Yellowknife and Tokyo is 15 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 Mexico City, Calgary, Edmonton. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Yellowknife.
Yellowknife (Canada) is home to roughly 20K people. Today brings about 11.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:42, sunset at 19:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 62° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
MDT · America/Yellowknife
Coordinates
62.45°N, 114.37°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Yellowknife sits almost directly under the auroral oval and has clear, dry winter skies, which makes it one of the most reliable aurora-viewing locations on Earth — visible on a majority of dark, clear nights.
The clock: Yellowknife keeps Mountain Time at 62.5° north, where summer daylight runs about 20 hours and December offers roughly five.
Yellowknife lies at 114.4°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 24.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 97 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:37 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−6 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 20h of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 4h 58m. The swing between them is 15h 2m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Yellowknife the sun comes up earliest on 20 June at 03:39, while the latest sunset waits until 24 June at 23:39. 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 Yellowknife that civil twilight runs about 45 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 68 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 Yellowknife, Canada is America/Yellowknife with a current UTC offset of UTC−6.
Yellowknife has an estimated population of 20K and is located at coordinates 62.45°N, 114.37°W.
Yellowknife gets 20h of daylight on its longest day and 4h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 27m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Yellowknife falls at about 13:37 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 24.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Best Places to See the Aurora: Yellowknife sits almost directly under the auroral oval and has clear, dry winter skies, which makes it one of the most reliable aurora-viewing locations on Earth — visible on a majority of dark, clear nights.