Shearwater in numbers
- Coordinates
- 44.6268, -63.5137
- Population
- 1 550
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 961 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Shearwater, Nova Scotia, Canada
The time you see here is the local time in Shearwater, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the America/Halifax time zone (−3).
Shearwater, Canada
Thursday, 22 October 2026
UTC−3 · America/Halifax
Local time in Shearwater
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
Shearwater keeps America/Halifax clock_time.
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 7:09 AM – 6:50 PM
Weather in Shearwater right now
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Shearwater and its neighbours
Postal codes
- B3G Eastern Passage — 2.7 km away
- B2V Dartmouth Morris Lake — 4.1 km away
- B2Y Dartmouth South Central — 4.9 km away
- B3J Halifax Mid-Harbour Nova Scotia Provincial Government — 5.3 km away
- B2W Dartmouth East Central — 5.4 km away
- B3H Halifax Lower Harbour — 5.5 km away
- B3P Halifax North West Arm — 6.6 km away
- B3A Dartmouth Southwest — 7.9 km away
- B3K Halifax Upper Harbour — 8.0 km away
- B3R Halifax South — 8.0 km away
- B3L Halifax Central — 8.4 km away
- B2X Dartmouth North Central — 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
Other places named Shearwater
- Shearwater Tasmania, Australia
- Shearwater British Columbia, Canada
Nearby places
- Imperoyal — 1.5 km
- Mcnabs Island — 2.2 km
- Eastern Passage — 2.7 km
- Woodside — 3.8 km
- Willowdale — 3.9 km
- Portland Estates — 4.2 km
About the time in Shearwater
Mail addressed to Shearwater uses 12 postal codes.
Shearwater sits under America/Halifax, which puts local clocks at UTC−3. Daylight saving in use: Yes.
The sun rises over Shearwater today at 7:39 AM and slips away at 6:20 PM. That leaves 10 h 41 min of daylight.
Close to Shearwater, the towns of Imperoyal and Mcnabs Island show the same time.
Questions and answers
- Is Shearwater in a specific time zone?
- Yes, Shearwater is in the America/Halifax time zone, with an offset of −3.
- Is a seasonal hour added to the clock in Shearwater?
- Yes.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Shearwater?
- It sets at 6:20 PM.