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Time in Nova Scotia, Canada now

04:40:09AM

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Nova Scotia switched to standard time at 02:00AM on Sunday, November 3. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 06:55AM ↓ 04:56PM (10h 1m) - More info - Make Nova Scotia time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Nova Scotia

UTC -4

Atlantic Time (AT)
now 1 hour ahead of New York

From 9 March 2025: UTC -3 / Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT)
The time in Nova Scotia is normally one hour ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Nova Scotia can for a short while be two hours ahead of or the same as the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Nova Scotia is America/Halifax.

Sunday November 3 2024

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC -4 / Atlantic Standard Time (AST).
The time was set back one hour from 02:00AM to 01:00AM local time.

Sunday March 9 2025

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC -3 / Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT).
The time will be set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Nova Scotia

Los Angeles	−4 hours	−4 hours
Chicago	−2 hours	−2 hours
New York	−1 hours	−1 hours
Toronto	−1 hours	−1 hours
São Paulo	+1 hours
London	+4 hours
UTC	+4 hours
Lagos	+5 hours
Paris	+5 hours
Zurich	+5 hours
Cairo	+6 hours
Johannesburg	+6 hours
Istanbul	+7 hours
Moscow	+7 hours
Dubai	+8 hours
Mumbai	+9.5 hours
Hong Kong	+12 hours
Shanghai	+12 hours
Singapore	+12 hours
Tokyo	+13 hours
Sydney	+15 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Nova Scotia

Sunrise: 06:55AM
Sunset: 04:56PM
Day length: 10h 1m
Solar noon: 11:56AM
The current local time in Nova Scotia is 4 minutes behind apparent solar time.

Nova Scotia on the map

Location: Canada
Latitude: 45.00. Longitude: -63.00
Population: 936,000

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