Current Time in St. John's, Canada
Time and Sun Facts for St. John's
- Local time
- 8:37 pm
- Date
- Saturday, 24 October 2026
- Time zone
America/St_Johns- UTC offset
- UTC-2:30
- Daylight saving
- In effect now
- Next clock change
- 1 November 2026 — clocks go back
- Sunrise
- 7:32 am
- Sunset
- 5:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Coordinates
- 47.56, -52.71
How St. John's Keeps Time
St. John's keeps NDT, UTC-2:30. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for St. John's; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
St. John's runs on the America/St_Johns zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-2:30 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC-3:30 on standard time and UTC-2:30 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back one hour.
St. John's is one of the places that sits 30 minutes off the hour rather than on it, so a straight “add five hours” conversion will always be 30 minutes wrong.
The sun rises in St. John's at 7:32 am today and sets at 5:57 pm — 10 hours 24 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:45 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (47.56, -52.71), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, St. John's has about 15 hours 59 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 26 minutes in December. The difference is about 7 hours 33 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
At the current civil offset, St. John's’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 1 minute between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:45 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.
NDT 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.
St. John's at a Glance
| Coordinates | 47.5600, -52.7100 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | America/St_Johns |
| Current UTC offset | UTC-2:30 |
| Daylight saving | Observed seasonally |
| Sunrise today | 7:32 am |
| Sunset today | 5:57 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:45 pm |
| Daylight today | 10 hours 24 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Ottawa | 1,769 km |
| Current clock difference vs Ottawa | +1 hour 30 minutes |
How St. John's Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to St. John's. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with St. John's |
|---|---|---|
| London | 12:07 am | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| New York | 7:07 pm | 1 hour 30 minutes behind |
| Los Angeles | 4:07 pm | 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Dubai | 3:07 am | 6 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Karachi | 4:07 am | 7 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Singapore | 7:07 am | 10 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Tokyo | 8:07 am | 11 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Sydney | 10:07 am | 13 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to St. John's
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Halifax | 897 km | 8:07 pm |
| Quebec City | 1,397 km | 7:07 pm |
| Montreal | 1,607 km | 7:07 pm |
| Ottawa | 1,769 km | 7:07 pm |
| Toronto | 2,109 km | 7:07 pm |
Other Cities in Canada
Canada keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.
Questions People Ask
When does St. John's next change its clocks?
The next transition is 1 November 2026. Use America/St_Johns in calendar software instead of pinning an event to one fixed UTC offset.
Why is St. John's not on a whole-hour UTC offset?
This zone is 30 minutes beyond a whole hour. Use UTC-2:30 or the IANA zone name for conversions instead of rounding it.
Is St. John's the time everywhere in Canada?
No. Canada currently has 6 distinct civil UTC offsets represented in the directory, so the country page separates the regions.
Why is solar noon in St. John's far from 12:00?
The current civil offset and the city longitude do not place mean solar noon at twelve on the clock. Today the calculated solar noon is 12:45 pm.
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