Sterling in numbers
- Coordinates
- 46.2041, -59.9558
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada, North America
- Capital
- Ottawa — 1221 km away
- Same name
- 30 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Sterling, Nova Scotia, Canada
This page carries the current local time for Sterling, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the America/Glace_Bay time zone (−3).
Sterling, Canada
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−3 · America/Glace_Bay
Local time in Sterling
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Sterling, Nova Scotia.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:33 AM Solar noon 12:45 PM Sunset 5:57 PM Daylight 10 h 24 min Night 13 h 36 min Civil twilight 7:02 AM – 6:28 PM
Weather in Sterling right now
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Sterling and its neighbours
Postal codes
- B1A Glace Bay — 0.8 km away
- B1G Dominion — 4.8 km away
- B1E Reserve Mines — 5.2 km away
- B1B Port Morien — 10.2 km away
- B1M Sydney East — 12.3 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
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Nearby places
- Table Head — 0.6 km
- Glace Bay — 0.8 km
- Hub — 1.2 km
- New Aberdeen — 1.3 km
- Caledonia — 2.1 km
- Morien Hill — 2.6 km
Sterling: clock, sun and surroundings
Sterling works to America/Glace_Bay time, set at UTC−3. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.
The sun comes up over Sterling at 7:33 AM today and drops below the horizon at 5:57 PM. That is 10 h 24 min between the two.
The time in Sterling is also the time in nearby Table Head and Glace Bay.
Sterling spans 5 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is used in Sterling?
- The time zone used in Sterling is America/Glace_Bay, with an offset of −3.
- Does daylight saving time have any effect on the clock in Sterling?
- Daylight saving in Sterling: Yes.
- What is the local sunrise time in Sterling?
- Local sunrise is 7:33 AM.