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Sydney to Toronto

These two are not a fixed distance apart. The gap is −16h, −15h, −14h at different points in the year, and it changes 6 times.

Reading your clock…

Every gap between Sydney and Toronto, with dates

This is the table other converters do not show. Each row is a stretch of the year during which the difference is a particular number. Dates are Sydney's local dates.

Time difference between Sydney and Toronto by date range
FromUntilToronto isLength
Tuesday, 1 September 2026Saturday, 3 October 202614 hours behind33 days
Sunday, 4 October 2026Sunday, 1 November 202615 hours behind29 days
Monday, 2 November 2026Sunday, 14 March 202716 hours behind133 days
Monday, 15 March 2027Saturday, 3 April 202715 hours behind20 days
Sunday, 4 April 2027Saturday, 2 October 202714 hours behind182 days
Sunday, 3 October 2027Sunday, 7 November 202715 hours behind36 days
Monday, 8 November 2027onwards16 hours behind—

The highlighted row is the one to watch. For 20 days from Monday, 15 March 2027, the difference is 15 hours behind rather than the usual figure. A weekly call booked outside that window arrives an hour off inside it.

Sydney hours converted to Toronto

As at Monday, 14 September 2026. Use the converter above for any other day — and if the table of gaps says the difference changes, these numbers change with it.

Hourly conversion from Sydney to Toronto
SydneyToronto
07:0017:00previous day
08:0018:00previous day
09:0019:00previous day
10:0020:00previous day
11:0021:00previous day
12:0022:00previous day
13:0023:00previous day
14:0000:00
15:0001:00
16:0002:00
17:0003:00
18:0004:00
19:0005:00
20:0006:00

Sydney

Australia/Sydney

Changes clocks twice a year, between UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00. Next change Sunday, 4 October 2026.

Toronto

America/Toronto

Changes clocks twice a year, between UTC-05:00 and UTC-04:00. Next change Sunday, 1 November 2026.

When Sydney and Toronto can actually talk

On a standard 09:00–17:00 day there is no overlap at all between Sydney and Toronto. One side has to take the call outside their working hours — there is no arrangement of a normal working day that avoids it. Themeeting planner shows how much either side has to stretch, and who is affected least.

Calculated for Monday, 14 September 2026. Because the gap changes during the year, this window moves with it — the planner recomputes it for any date you pick.

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Questions

Sydney and Toronto, explained

What is the time difference between Sydney and Toronto?

There is no single answer, which is why most converters get this wrong for part of the year. Toronto is 16 hours behind, 15 hours behind, 14 hours behind relative to Sydney at different points in the year. Right now it is 14 hours behind. The table on this page gives the exact dates for each.

Why does the difference between Sydney and Toronto change?

Sydney moves between UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00, while Toronto moves between UTC-05:00 and UTC-04:00. Because the two do not change on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions, there are short windows each year where the gap is different from the rest of it.

When is the difference between Sydney and Toronto unusual?

The shortest window runs from Monday, 15 March 2027 to Saturday, 3 April 2027 — 20 days during which Toronto is 15 hours behind relative to Sydney rather than the usual amount. Short windows like this are where recurring meetings break, because nobody thinks to check.

Does this account for daylight saving automatically?

Yes. Offsets come from your device's own copy of the IANA time zone database through the browser's Intl API, so they reflect whatever rules are current rather than a table bundled here that could go stale. Pick any date in the converter and it resolves that date's rules, not today's.