Downtown Halifax in numbers
- Coordinates
- 44.6483, -63.5776
- Population
- 25 555
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 955 km away
What time is it in Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Find out what time it is now in Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — the local clock runs on America/Halifax (−3).
Downtown Halifax, Canada
Thursday, 22 October 2026
UTC−3 · America/Halifax
Local time in Downtown Halifax
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Downtown Halifax.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:39 AM Solar noon 1:00 PM Sunset 6:20 PM Daylight 10 h 41 min Night 13 h 19 min Civil twilight 7:10 AM – 6:50 PM
Weather in Downtown Halifax right now
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Downtown Halifax and its neighbours
Postal codes
- B3J Halifax Mid-Harbour Nova Scotia Provincial Government — 0.4 km away
- B3H Halifax Lower Harbour — 1.6 km away
- B3K Halifax Upper Harbour — 2.4 km away
- B3L Halifax Central — 2.9 km away
- B2Y Dartmouth South Central — 3.1 km away
- B3A Dartmouth Southwest — 3.7 km away
- B3P Halifax North West Arm — 4.1 km away
- B3N Halifax South Central — 5.3 km away
- B2W Dartmouth East Central — 6.3 km away
- B3R Halifax South — 6.4 km away
- B3B Dartmouth Northwest — 6.8 km away
- B2X Dartmouth North Central — 6.9 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 Nova Scotia
- Halifax 471 559
- Sydney 105 968
- Dartmouth 101 343
- Lower Sackville 51 749
- Halifax West End 22 664
- Bedford 21 474
Nearby places
- Halifax — 0.4 km
- Spring Garden — 0.8 km
- Schmidtville — 0.9 km
- Quinpool District — 1.7 km
- Halifax South End — 2.1 km
- Downtown Dartmouth — 2.3 km
Local time details for Downtown Halifax
In Downtown Halifax today the sun is out from 7:39 AM until 6:20 PM. That comes to 10 h 41 min of daylight.
Downtown Halifax keeps the same time as its neighbours Halifax and Spring Garden.
Postal service in Downtown Halifax uses 12 codes.
Downtown Halifax counts hours by America/Halifax, which stands at UTC−3. Whether daylight saving is kept: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone Downtown Halifax uses?
- Downtown Halifax uses the America/Halifax time zone, with an offset of −3.
- Does the time in Downtown Halifax shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- Yes.
- When does the sun appear in Downtown Halifax?
- It appears at 7:39 AM.