Time in America/Halifax

The current local time in America/Halifax is 18:56:13. America/Halifax is currently UTC-04:00. Compare with all major time zones.

America/Halifax is an IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) time zone identifier. IANA names use a Region/City format (e.g. Europe/London, America/New_York) and are the global standard used by Unix, Linux, macOS, Java, Python, and most modern software. Browse the full list of IANA time zones.

Yes — America/Halifax observes DST. In standard time it is AST UTC-04:00; during DST it switches to ADT UTC-03:00. Exact transition dates follow the local government's DST rules and are baked into the IANA tz database.

Major cities in America/Halifax include Dartmouth, Halifax. Each city's local time, sunrise/sunset and weather are on its individual page.

America/Halifax is used (in whole or in part) by Canada. See the time zone map for a geographic view of all zones.

Use the time zone converter to translate between America/Halifax and any other zone. The converter handles DST transitions automatically and accepts either IANA names or city names as inputs.