Rear Christmas Island in numbers
- Coordinates
- 45.9668, -60.7152
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 1164 km away
What time is it in Rear Christmas Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
The current hour and minute in Rear Christmas Island, Nova Scotia, Canada are shown here, in the America/Glace_Bay zone (−4).
Rear Christmas Island, Canada
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−4 · America/Glace_Bay
Local time in Rear Christmas Island
UTC−4 · no daylight saving time
Rear Christmas Island keeps America/Glace_Bay clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 11:48 AM Sunset 4:41 PM Daylight 9 h 47 min Night 14 h 13 min Civil twilight 6:22 AM – 5:13 PM
Weather in Rear Christmas Island right now
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Rear Christmas Island and its neighbours
Postal codes
- B1T Christmas Island — 0.0 km away
- B1W Eskasoni — 6.7 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 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
- Christmas Island — 2.4 km
- Benacadie — 2.4 km
- Benacadie West — 3.4 km
- Big Beach — 4.0 km
- Pipers Cove — 4.5 km
- Big Brook — 4.9 km
Time and daylight in Rear Christmas Island
Expect sunrise at 6:54 AM and sunset at 4:41 PM in Rear Christmas Island today. Daylight adds up to 9 h 47 min.
Rear Christmas Island shares its time with neighbouring Benacadie and Christmas Island.
Rear Christmas Island contains 2 postal codes.
Time in Rear Christmas Island runs on America/Glace_Bay, which is UTC−4. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Rear Christmas Island based on?
- The clock in Rear Christmas Island is based on America/Glace_Bay, with an offset of −4.
- Does Rear Christmas Island switch to summer time during the year?
- Daylight saving time observed in Rear Christmas Island: No.
- Please give the sunrise time for Rear Christmas Island.
- The sun rises at 6:54 AM.