Ottawa, Canada
Current time in Canada
Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/Toronto
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -4 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -04:00) America/Toronto |
Current Time in other Cities of Canada
Ottawa time zone and UTC offset
Ottawa keeps EDT (4 hours behind UTC, UTC-04:00). Its database zone is America/Toronto — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Ottawa observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes EST.
Bear in mind Canada spans 8 zones across the 53 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.
Time gaps from Ottawa right now
Read this as: relative to each city below, Ottawa is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | same time as Ottawa |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Ottawa is 3 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Ottawa is 5 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Ottawa is 6 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Ottawa is 8 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Ottawa is 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Ottawa is 12 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Ottawa is 13 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Ottawa is 14 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Ottawa is 1 hour behind |
Best time to call Ottawa
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Ottawa local time.
| New York | 09:00–17:00 in Ottawa | 8 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–16:00 in Ottawa | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 12:00–17:00 in Ottawa | 5 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–12:00 in Ottawa | 3 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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