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9–17 in Montreal vs UTC
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About Montreal
Home to roughly 1,704,694 residents, Montreal is a notable city in Canada. Its terrain rests around 36 m of elevation.
Montreal keeps time on the America/Toronto IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 45.50° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Canada's currency is CAD and its calling prefix is +1. This page exposes Montreal'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 Montreal
The current local time in Montreal, Canada is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Montreal uses the IANA time zone America/Toronto, currently UTC−5.
Whether Montreal observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Toronto) is the source of truth.
Montreal is currently in the same time as New York.
Montreal is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Montreal are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (45.5017, -73.5673).
Canada uses the CAD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Montreal sits at 45.5017° N, 73.5673° W, 36 m above sea level, in Canada.