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Zoom in for the local exceptions: the Kootenays, Creston, the Peace region, Lloydminster, northwestern Ontario and Point Roberts.
It depends where you are. B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and northwestern Ontario stay put. The rest of Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, Nunavut and most of the U.S. fall back one hour at 2 a.m.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Clocks stay put in Vancouver.
B.C. made its last clock change on March 8, 2026. It now stays on Pacific time, UTC-7, all year.
Shortest day, Dec. 21: sunrise about 9:05 a.m., sunset about 5:16 p.m. On the old winter clock that was 8:05 a.m. and 4:16 p.m.
From Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026 to Sunday, March 14, 2027, the gaps you’re used to shift. Seen from B.C.:
Live times across North America, and how far each place is from Vancouver this winter. Pick a different town at the top to change the comparison.
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Times are calculated from each province’s and state’s current rules, not from your device.
Now, in winter and in summer. Works for anywhere on this site, including family overseas.
Europe changes its clocks on the last Sundays of March and October, and Australia and New Zealand in April and late September or October. Around those dates, differences with North America can be an hour off from the winter and summer figures for a week or two.
Where the clocks stay put on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, and where they still fall back one hour at 2 a.m. local time.
Phones and computers take their time zone rules from a shared world database. It added the new rules for B.C., Alberta, the NWT and Manitoba between March and September 2026, so an up-to-date device should get Sunday right. Older devices may still fall back on their own.
This checks the browser you’re using now. Your phone’s own clock uses the operating system’s copy, which usually updates with it. Clocks on stoves, cars and older gadgets don’t update themselves, so check those on Sunday morning.
No. B.C. made its last clock change on March 8, 2026, and most of the province now stays on Pacific time, UTC-7, all year. The East Kootenay and Golden don’t change either: they stay on Alberta’s clock, an hour ahead.
Only from mid-March to early November. From Nov. 1 to March 14, Washington, Oregon and California are on Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8, an hour behind B.C.
The world time zone database that devices use labels the new year-round times with standard-time abbreviations: MST for B.C. (UTC-7), CST for Alberta and the NWT (UTC-6) and EST for Manitoba (UTC-5). If your device is up to date, the time it shows is right even if the label looks odd. B.C.’s own name for its time is Pacific time.
The Regional District of East Kootenay chose Mountain Daylight Time all year, so Cranbrook, Kimberley, Fernie, Sparwood, Elkford, Invermere, Radium Hot Springs and Canal Flats match Alberta. Golden first planned to join B.C. time, then reversed in September 2026 and also stays on Mountain Daylight Time. Creston has been on UTC-7 all year for decades, so it now matches the rest of B.C. and is an hour behind Cranbrook.
Point Roberts is part of Washington State, so it falls back with the U.S. on Nov. 1. Until March 14 it’s an hour behind Tsawwassen next door.
Not yet. The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act 308 to 117 on July 14, 2026, but the Senate hasn’t voted on it. U.S. law lets a state stay on standard time all year, as Arizona and Hawaii do, but not on daylight time unless Congress allows it.
Sunday, March 14, 2027, at 2 a.m. local time, in the places that still change: most of Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, Nunavut and most of the U.S. B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, the NWT and northwestern Ontario won’t change.
Year-round daylight time keeps the summer clock all winter, so the sun rises about an hour later by the clock than it used to, and sets an hour later. In Vancouver on Dec. 21, sunrise is around 9:05 a.m. and sunset around 5:16 p.m., instead of 8:05 a.m. and 4:16 p.m. Pick your town at the top of the page to see yours.
In Canada, each province and territory sets its own time by law, and in B.C. local governments can choose too. That’s why the map is a patchwork. Fittingly, standard time zones were championed by a Canadian, Sir Sandford Fleming, in the 1870s and 1880s.