Current Time in Quebec City, Canada

How Quebec City Keeps Time

Quebec City keeps EDT, UTC-4. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Quebec City; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Quebec City runs on the America/Toronto zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-4 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC-5 on standard time and UTC-4 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back one hour.

The sun rises in Quebec City at 7:15 am today and sets at 5:42 pm — 10 hours 27 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:29 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (46.81, -71.21), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Quebec City has about 15 hours 52 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 32 minutes in December. The difference is about 7 hours 20 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

EDT is one of several zones in Canada, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.

Quebec City at a Glance

How Quebec City Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Quebec City. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Quebec City

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Canada

Canada keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.