Time in St. John's, Canada

Local time here is NDT, which sits 2 hours 30 minutes behind UTC, written UTC-02:30. The canonical zone name is America/St_Johns, 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 St. John's moves to NST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

Bear in mind Canada spans 8 zones across the 53 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.

With a population near 110,525, St. John's comes in 43rd of the 48 Canada cities we list.

How far ahead or behind is St. John's?

Read this as: relative to each city below, St. John's is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

New York	UTC-04:00	St. John's is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead
Los Angeles	UTC-07:00	St. John's is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead
London	UTC+01:00	St. John's is 3 hours 30 minutes behind
Paris	UTC+02:00	St. John's is 4 hours 30 minutes behind
Dubai	UTC+04:00	St. John's is 6 hours 30 minutes behind
Mumbai	UTC+05:30	St. John's is 8 hours behind
Shanghai	UTC+08:00	St. John's is 10 hours 30 minutes behind
Tokyo	UTC+09:00	St. John's is 11 hours 30 minutes behind
Sydney	UTC+10:00	St. John's is 12 hours 30 minutes behind
Sao Paulo	UTC-03:00	St. John's is 30 minutes ahead

Scheduling calls with St. John's

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in St. John's local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

Sao Paulo	09:30–17:00 in St. John's	7.5 hours overlap
New York	10:30–17:00 in St. John's	6.5 hours overlap
London	09:00–13:30 in St. John's	4.5 hours overlap
Los Angeles	13:30–17:00 in St. John's	3.5 hours overlap