Time in Vancouver
Canada · America/Vancouver · latitude 49.28°
Reading your clock…
Vancouver never changes its clocks
Vancouver stays on UTC-07:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Vancouver and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Vancouver
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| New York | 2 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Los Angeles | 1 hour behind | −1h / 0 |
| Chicago | 1 hour ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Toronto | 2 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Paris | 8 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| Berlin | 8 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| Dubai | 11 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 12 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 15 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 15 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 16 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 18 hours ahead | +17h / +18h |
| Auckland | 20 hours ahead | +19h / +20h |
| São Paulo | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| UTC | 7 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in Vancouver through the year
From about 8.2 hours in December to 16.3 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 07:46 | 16:37 | 8h 51m |
| February | 07:01 | 17:29 | 10h 28m |
| March | 06:04 | 18:14 | 12h 10m |
| April | 04:59 | 19:00 | 14h 1m |
| May | 04:11 | 19:43 | 15h 32m |
| June | 03:54 | 20:09 | 16h 15m |
| July | 04:17 | 19:56 | 15h 39m |
| August | 04:59 | 19:08 | 14h 9m |
| September | 05:43 | 18:03 | 12h 20m |
| October | 06:29 | 17:01 | 10h 32m |
| November | 07:19 | 16:14 | 8h 55m |
| December | 07:53 | 16:04 | 8h 11m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Vancouver
What time zone is Vancouver in?
Vancouver uses the IANA time zone America/Vancouver, a fixed UTC-07:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Vancouver observe daylight saving time?
No. Vancouver stays on UTC-07:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Vancouver and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Vancouver keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend. London is a clear example: it sits 7 hours ahead, then 8 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Vancouver get?
Around 16.3 hours at the longest, in June, and about 8.2 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Vancouver's latitude of 49.28° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.