Québec, Canada
Current time in Canada
Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/Toronto
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -12 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -4 ) Québec, Canada |
Current Time in other Cities of Canada
Québec time zone and UTC offset
Local time here is EDT, which sits 4 hours behind UTC, written UTC-04:00. The canonical zone name is America/Toronto, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 01 November 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Québec moves to EST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
Canada is not on a single clock: the 53 cities listed here fall across 8 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Québec.
Québec has roughly 531,902 residents and ranks 3rd by population among the Canada cities on this site.
Time gaps from Québec right now
How Québec lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | same time as Québec |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Québec is 3 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Québec is 5 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Québec is 6 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Québec is 8 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Québec is 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Québec is 12 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Québec is 13 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Québec is 14 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Québec is 1 hour behind |
Working hours that match Québec
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Québec local time.
| New York | 09:00–17:00 in Québec | 8 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–16:00 in Québec | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 12:00–17:00 in Québec | 5 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–12:00 in Québec | 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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