Sunrise Today in Canada
Time and Sun Facts for Canada
- Local time
- 8:38 pm
- Date
- Saturday, 24 October 2026
- Time zone
America/Toronto- UTC offset
- UTC-4
- Daylight saving
- In effect now
- Next clock change
- 1 November 2026 — clocks go back
Sunrise Across Canada
Among the bundled cities in Canada, today’s sunrise is 7:34 am in St. John's and 7:49 am in Vancouver. The city pages calculate the event from each set of coordinates rather than assigning one national time.
Canada currently has 6 distinct civil UTC offsets in the bundled locations. The two solar events are 285 minutes apart in absolute time, while their printed clock labels also reflect those civil offsets.
Terrain and a blocked local horizon are not represented in these astronomical figures. The calculation notes describe that limitation.
Questions People Ask
Is there one sunrise time for all of Canada?
No. The event is calculated for a point on Earth, so select the city whose coordinates match the place you need.
Why is the displayed sunrise time different between cities in Canada?
The cities differ in position and may also use different civil-clock offsets. Both affect the time printed on the clock.
More on the Sun Where You are
Keep sunrise times across Canada open in a tab if you check it often. To look somewhere else up instead, start from the time around the world.