Time in Toronto
It is 22:26 on Wednesday, 16 September 2026 in Toronto. Toronto is in Canada. Civil time uses the IANA zone America/Toronto at -04:00 from UTC (in effect). Use the live clock below for the current local time, then jump to a difference or conversion when you need meeting math.
Toronto uses America/Toronto on Eastern Time, typically the same UTC−05:00 / UTC−04:00 offsets as New York, but it is a distinct IANA zone (Canada’s DST rules are stored separately from America’s).
Office hours commonly run about 09:00–17:00. Vancouver is three hours behind; London mornings overlap Toronto’s early office hours. Do not assume the New York identifier is interchangeable in calendar software.
America/Toronto usually matches New York’s offset but is the Canadian Eastern zone. Provincial DST law is not an Act of Congress — keep the Canadian id on Canadian invites.
Toronto time zone
- UTC offset
- UTC-04:00
- Abbreviation
- EDT
- IANA
- America/Toronto
- DST
- in effect
Daylight saving in Toronto
Daylight saving is currently in effect, so Toronto is running one step ahead of its standard offset. Clocks in Toronto next go back on 1 November 2026 at 01:00 local time, moving from UTC-04:00 to UTC-05:00.
Daylight in Toronto today
The sun rises at 06:58 and sets at 19:26, giving 12 h 28 m of daylight. Solar noon falls at 13:12, 72 minutes after the clock reads twelve, because Toronto sits west of the 60° W meridian its current offset is built on.
- Sunrise
- 06:58
- Sunset
- 19:26
- Daylight
- 12 h 28 m
- Solar noon
- 13:12Solar noon is when the sun sits highest in the sky. It drifts from clock noon across a time zone, which is why one clock can span very different days.
Best time to call Toronto
Overlap between a 09:00–17:00 working day in Toronto and the same hours in other major cities.
Popular time differences
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About Toronto
- Population
- 2,794,356The administrative city figure recorded by Wikidata. The surrounding urban area is larger.
- Region
- Ontario
- Coordinates
- 43.6703° N, 79.3867° WLatitude is what drives the sunrise and sunset times above.
- Currency
- Canadian Dollar (CAD)
- Calling code
- +1Dial this after your international access prefix, and check the overlap table above before you call.
- Languages
- English
- Airports
- YYZToronto Pearson InternationalArrival and departure boards at these airports quote Toronto local time, not the time where you booked.
Frequently asked questions about time in Toronto
- What time is it in Toronto right now?
- It is 22:26 in Toronto as this page was generated, and the clock above keeps ticking in your browser. Toronto uses the IANA zone America/Toronto, currently -04:00.
- Which time zone is Toronto in?
- Toronto is in the EDT time zone (America/Toronto), currently -04:00. Always store the identifier rather than the offset — the offset changes with daylight saving, the identifier does not.
- Does Toronto observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Toronto shifts its clocks during the year, so the difference to cities that do not change moves by an hour twice a year.
- Is Toronto ahead of or behind UTC?
- Toronto is currently at -04:00. When it is 12:00 UTC, the local time in Toronto is 08:00.