Time Difference Between New York and Toronto
Toronto is the same time as New York all year. Both cities observe daylight saving time and change their clocks together, so the gap never moves.
New York clocks move forward on the second Sunday of March and back on the first Sunday of November. Toronto clocks move forward on the second Sunday of March and back on the first Sunday of November. The figure above holds for the whole year. It does not come from the offset on the day the site was built. The live clocks use the current time.
Working Hours Overlap
For each hour of New York's working day (9:00-18:00), here is the corresponding local time in Toronto. Rows highlighted green fall within standard working hours (9:00-18:00) in both cities. Each block is one part of the year, so the table does not change with the day this page was built.
| New York | Toronto | Both working hours? |
|---|---|---|
| 9 AM | 9 AM | Yes |
| 10 AM | 10 AM | Yes |
| 11 AM | 11 AM | Yes |
| 12 PM | 12 PM | Yes |
| 1 PM | 1 PM | Yes |
| 2 PM | 2 PM | Yes |
| 3 PM | 3 PM | Yes |
| 4 PM | 4 PM | Yes |
| 5 PM | 5 PM | Yes |
| 6 PM | 6 PM | No |
Best Time to Meet
- 9 AM-6 PM in New York (9 AM-6 PM in Toronto) works for both sides. It falls within 9 AM-6 PM in both time zones.
How the Difference Changes
The difference between New York and Toronto holds all year. Both cities change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap never moves.
Working Across New York and Toronto
New York and Toronto are the same time, all year. Both change on the second Sunday of March and both change back on the first Sunday of November, so the gap does not open even for a week. A 9 AM call is 9 AM. The stock exchanges sit in the same hour. If a cross-border meeting fails, it failed because of a holiday or a habit, not because of an offset. Do not add an hour because Canada looks further away on a map than the clock allows.
The holidays are not shared, and they fall on weeks when the other country is busy. Canada's Thanksgiving is in October. The US Thanksgiving is in November. Canada Day is a full stop in Toronto and an ordinary day in New York. Boxing Day is a statutory holiday in Canada and a shopping day in the US. Provincial holidays in Ontario, including the February long weekend, do not appear on a US calendar at all. A Monday off in Toronto with New York online is the classic way to lose a room. The reverse happens in late November, when New York disappears and Toronto does not.
The flight is about ninety minutes. There is nothing to recover from except the airport. People do this as a day trip and then book the workshop on the Monday that only one of the two countries has off. Before you send the invite, open both public-holiday lists for that month. The clocks will not save you, because the clocks agree. Ninety minutes in the air is a shuttle. The holiday list is the actual preparation, and it takes longer than the flight.
Guides for this corridor
- Same clock, different calendar
New York and Toronto, Seoul and Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, Beijing and Singapore. The offset is zero or close to it. The meetings fail on holidays, typhoons, and a week of lunar new year that only one side takes.
New York
New York uses the America/New_York time zone. Standard time is UTC-5, and daylight saving time is UTC-4.
Toronto
Toronto uses the America/Toronto time zone. Standard time is UTC-5, and daylight saving time is UTC-4.