Cape Breton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 46.2083, -64.7492
- Region
- New Brunswick
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 852 km away
What time is it in Cape Breton, New Brunswick, Canada
Right now in Cape Breton, New Brunswick, Canada the local time is the one shown here, in the America/Moncton zone (−3).
Cape Breton, Canada
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−3 · America/Moncton
Local time in Cape Breton
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Cape Breton, New Brunswick.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:52 AM Solar noon 1:04 PM Sunset 6:16 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 7:21 AM – 6:47 PM
Weather in Cape Breton right now
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Cape Breton and its neighbours
Postal codes
- E1H Lakeville, Shediac Bridge — 5.7 km away
- E1A Dieppe Moncton East — 12.8 km away
- E1C Moncton Central — 12.9 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 New Brunswick
- Moncton 86 106
- Saint John 71 808
- Fredericton 63 116
- Fredericton Northside 28 167
- Dieppe 27 304
- Riverview 20 584
Nearby places
- Scotch Settlement — 2.6 km
- Irishtown — 4.0 km
- Saint-Philippe — 4.4 km
- Tankville — 5.8 km
- Mcquade — 6.3 km
- Leblancville — 6.4 km
Local time details for Cape Breton
Morning light reaches Cape Breton at 7:52 AM, and the sun sets at 6:16 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 10 h 24 min.
Scotch Settlement and Irishtown are near Cape Breton and do not differ from it in time.
3 postal codes cover the territory of Cape Breton.
Cape Breton reads its time from America/Moncton, placed at UTC−3. Whether daylight saving time is observed: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone setting matches Cape Breton?
- The time zone setting that matches Cape Breton is America/Moncton, with an offset of −3.
- Is there a spring or autumn clock change in Cape Breton?
- Daylight saving in Cape Breton: Yes.
- At what hour does the sun rise in Cape Breton?
- At 7:52 AM.