Current time in Halifax, Canada
5:43:21 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Halifax is on Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT), UTC−3. It observes daylight saving time.
About 472,000 people live in Halifax, Canada. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Halifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ, 27 km away).
- Time zone
- America/Halifax
- UTC offset now
- UTC−3
- Daylight saving time
- In effect now
- Sunrise today
- 7:42 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:13 PM
- Daylight
- 10 h 31 min
- Population
- 471,559
- Currency
- Dollar (CAD)
- Dialing code
- +1
- Languages (country)
- English, French
- Next clock change
- Clocks fall back 1 hour on Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM local (UTC−3 to UTC−4)
- Airports
- YHZ 27 km
Cities near Halifax
- Boston4:43 AM · −1 h654 km away
- Montreal4:43 AM · −1 h791 km away
- St. John's6:13 AM · +0.5 h898 km away
- New York4:43 AM · −1 h957 km away
- Newark4:43 AM · −1 h968 km away
- Philadelphia4:43 AM · −1 h1,085 km away
Meeting someone in Halifax?
Line up Halifax with everyone else's working hours and find a time that works.
Open the meeting plannerSunrise and sunset are calculated for 44.64°, -63.58° using NOAA's solar equations, and may differ by a minute or two from local almanacs.