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9–17 in Halifax vs UTC
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- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Canada Day1 Jul 2026
- Civic Holiday3 Aug 2026
- Labour Day7 Sept 2026
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation30 Sept 2026
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About Halifax
Home to roughly 403,131 residents, Halifax is a small but established city in Canada. Its terrain rests around 145 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Halifax is anchored to the America/Halifax time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 44.65° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Visitors will find prices listed in CAD; phones reach Canada via the +1 country code. This page exposes Halifax's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Halifax
The current local time in Halifax, Canada is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Halifax uses the IANA time zone America/Halifax, currently UTC−3.
Whether Halifax observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Halifax) is the source of truth.
Halifax is currently 1 hour ahead of New York.
Halifax is currently 4 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Halifax are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (44.6488, -63.5752).
Canada uses the CAD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Halifax sits at 44.6488° N, 63.5752° W, 145 m above sea level, in Canada.