Current time in Toronto, Canada
The current local time in Toronto is shown below. Toronto observes EST in winter and EDT during daylight saving time.
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Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
Toronto in context
Toronto stretches along the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, the largest city in Canada and the capital of the province of Ontario. The city proper holds around 2.9 million residents within its current boundaries, but the wider Greater Toronto Area extending into the Halton, Peel, York, and Durham regions reaches above 6.4 million. The Don Valley and Humber River cut through the city north-to-south, with the dense downtown core anchored by the CN Tower and the financial district along Bay Street.
Timezone history of Toronto
Toronto shares Eastern Time with most of the US East Coast and with eastern Canada, sitting at UTC-5 in winter and UTC-4 during daylight saving. Canada coordinated its DST rules with the United States in 2007, both countries shifting to the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November transitions that still apply today. Newfoundland and Labrador to the east continue to use a distinctive UTC-3:30 standard, one of the few half-hour offsets in the Americas.
Working hours in Toronto
Toronto working hours follow North American patterns of 09:00 to 17:00, with the Bay Street financial district extending earlier to overlap with the morning open in New York. Office lunch tends to be a 30- to 45-minute break, often taken in the underground PATH network of climate-controlled walkways that connects much of the central business district during the long winter. Canadian public holidays include 1 July (Canada Day), Victoria Day in late May, and Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October, which differs from the US date by six weeks.