Nanaimo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 49.1801, -123.9670
- Population
- 90 504
- Region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 3602 km away
What time is it in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Current local time for Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada is listed here, in the America/Vancouver time zone (−7).
Nanaimo, Canada
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−7 · America/Vancouver
Local time in Nanaimo
UTC−7 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:39 AM Solar noon 1:02 PM Sunset 6:26 PM Daylight 10 h 46 min Night 13 h 14 min Civil twilight 7:07 AM – 6:58 PM
Weather in Nanaimo right now
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Nanaimo and its neighbours
Postal codes
- V9S Nanaimo Central — 1.0 km away
- V9R Nanaimo South — 2.4 km away
- V9T Nanaimo North — 5.4 km away
- V9V Nanaimo Northwest — 7.7 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in British Columbia
Same time zone — America/Vancouver
- Vancouver Canada
Nearby places
- Chinatown — 2.4 km
- Departure Bay — 2.5 km
- Second Chinatown — 2.7 km
- East Wellington — 3.7 km
- Harewood — 3.9 km
- South End — 3.9 km
Local time details for Nanaimo
The sun climbs above Nanaimo at 7:39 AM and dips below at 6:26 PM. Between them sit 10 h 46 min of daylight.
Chinatown and Departure Bay sit close to Nanaimo and run on the same clock.
Nanaimo works with 4 postal codes.
The zone covering Nanaimo is called America/Vancouver and stands at UTC−7. Seasonal clock changes apply: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Can Nanaimo's time zone be given as America/Vancouver?
- Yes, Nanaimo's time zone is America/Vancouver, with an offset of −7.
- Will the time in Nanaimo move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Nanaimo: Yes.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in Nanaimo — what are they?
- Sunrise at 7:39 AM, sunset at 6:26 PM.