Big Beach in numbers
- Coordinates
- 45.9999, -60.6961
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 1165 km away
What time is it in Big Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada
This page reports the local time in Big Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada, set by the America/Glace_Bay time zone (−3).
Big Beach, Canada
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−3 · America/Glace_Bay
Local time in Big Beach
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
Big Beach keeps America/Glace_Bay time.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:28 Solar noon 13:03 Sunset 19:38 Daylight 13 h 10 min Night 10 h 50 min Civil twilight 05:58 – 20:09
Weather in Big Beach right now
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Big Beach and its neighbours
Postal codes
- B1T Christmas Island — 4.0 km away
- B1W Eskasoni — 8.5 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 Nova Scotia
- Halifax 471 559
- Sydney 105 968
- Dartmouth 101 343
- Lower Sackville 51 749
- Downtown Halifax 25 555
- Halifax West End 22 664
Nearby places
- Big Brook — 1.1 km
- Rear Christmas Island — 4.0 km
- Shunacadie — 4.1 km
- Christmas Island — 4.7 km
- Benacadie — 6.4 km
- Benacadie West — 7.4 km
Time and daylight in Big Beach
Big Beach spans 2 postal codes.
Big Beach keeps time under America/Glace_Bay. That places it at UTC−3, with daylight saving time Yes.
Morning light reaches Big Beach at 06:28, and the sun sets at 19:38. Daylight lasts a total of 13 h 10 min.
You will find the same time in Big Brook and Rear Christmas Island, both near Big Beach.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is assigned to Big Beach?
- Big Beach is assigned to the America/Glace_Bay time zone, with an offset of −3.
- Does the local schedule in Big Beach include a clock change?
- Yes.
- What time is last light in Big Beach?
- The sun sets at 19:38.