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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Toronto, Canada

· Eastern Daylight Time

EDT · UTC−4—— H FROM YOUAMERICA/TORONTO

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Toronto against your time zone

Reading your time zone to compare it with Toronto…

Toronto compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Toronto time zone facts

IANA time zoneAmerica/Toronto
Offset nowUTC−4 (EDT)
Standard offsetUTC−5 (EST)
Next clock change1 Nov 2026, 02:00 → 01:00
CountryCanada (CA)
Population2,600,000
Coordinates43.70, -79.42
Places in this zone35

Next clock change: Sunday 1 November 2026, when Toronto moves to UTC−5. Regions change on their own schedules, so the gap between Toronto and cities elsewhere is not fixed — daylight saving explained covers the weeks it goes strange.

Best hours to reach Toronto

From New York
the same time as Toronto · their morning
09:00–18:00
09:00–18:00 EDT
From San Francisco
3 hours behind Toronto · their morning
12:00–18:00
09:00–15:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
9½ hours ahead of Toronto · their morning
00:00–02:00
09:00–11:00 IST

Local times in Toronto on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Toronto

Toronto keeps Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4 from UTC at the moment. Clocks move twice a year, so the same wall-clock time is a different instant in summer and winter — this page reads the offset in force today rather than an average.

Toronto shares the zone America/Toronto with Montreal, Ottawa, Mississauga, North York, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Toronto converted to other zones

Each opens a comparison page with both cities on one timeline.

Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Toronto right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Toronto to the second. Toronto is on Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4 — the same clock as every other place in the zone America/Toronto.

Does Toronto observe daylight saving time?

Yes. Toronto is on UTC−4 now and UTC−5 outside daylight saving. The next change is Sunday 1 November 2026, when clocks go back.

What time zone is Toronto in?

Toronto uses the IANA zone America/Toronto, currently EDT (UTC−4). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Toronto?

Montreal, Ottawa, Mississauga, North York, Scarborough all sit in America/Toronto, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.