Airport in New Brunswick
Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport (YQM / CYQM) is a regional airport serving New Brunswick directly.
Current local time at the airport is 20:31:48.
Daylight saving time changes in New Brunswick, Canada
New Brunswick uses the IANA time zone identifier America/Moncton. The current local offset is UTC-3 / ADT.
Next change: November 1, 2026
Clock moves back from 02:00 to 01:00 local time.
Best Time to Call New Brunswick
Business hours in New Brunswick (9 AM-5 PM local time) fall at these local times elsewhere:
- Sao Paulo: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ( Convenient)
- Frankfurt: 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM ( Partial overlap)
- Johannesburg: 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM ( Partial overlap)
- Singapore: 8:00 PM - 4:00 AM (next day) ( Partial overlap)
- Hong Kong: 8:00 PM - 4:00 AM (next day) ( Partial overlap)
- Istanbul: 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM ( Partial overlap)
- Auckland: 1:00 AM (next day) - 9:00 AM (next day) ( Outside normal hours)
Times shown reflect current UTC offsets and may shift by up to an hour around daylight saving transitions.
Time Difference from New Brunswick
Compare time in New Brunswick with major cities worldwide.
Current Time in Cities of New Brunswick, Canada
About Time in New Brunswick
Saint John and the Push for Standard Time
New Brunswick played a small but documented role in one of the biggest shifts in how the world tracks time. In the early 1880s, the Board of Trade in Saint John petitioned the federal government to adopt Standard Time in public offices, a petition preserved today in the records of the Privy Council Office at Library and Archives Canada.
The timing was not a coincidence. That same period was when engineer Sandford Fleming, chief engineer of the Intercolonial Railway that ran straight through New Brunswick, was campaigning internationally for the idea of dividing the world into standard time zones, an idea that led directly to the International Meridian Conference of 1884.
Saint John's merchants had a practical reason to care. A railway running on inconsistent local times up and down the coast made schedules unreliable, and a city built on shipping and trade had every incentive to push Ottawa toward a fixed, predictable clock.
The Year New Brunswick Skipped Summer Clocks
Between 1945 and 2020, there was exactly one year when New Brunswick did not observe Daylight Saving Time at all: 1973.
The cause was not political but physical. The province had just been hit by major flooding, and provincial authorities decided the usual spring clock change was not worth the disruption on top of an already difficult year. Every neighboring Atlantic province, including Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, went ahead with the clock change as normal that year, leaving New Brunswick alone on a fixed, unchanging Atlantic Standard Time for the full twelve months.
The following year, 1974, New Brunswick rejoined the rest of Atlantic Canada on the usual schedule, and it has not skipped a year since.
A Time Zone File of Its Own
Most of Atlantic Canada is grouped under a single time zone identifier, but computer systems track New Brunswick separately, under the identifier America/Moncton, created specifically because of the province's own history with clock changes.
For a period, provincial law set the moment Daylight Saving Time began at a different clock time than the standard 2 a.m. used almost everywhere else in North America, a small legal quirk that meant New Brunswick could not simply share a time zone file with Halifax or St. John's without losing that detail.
The dedicated file remains part of the international time zone database maintained today, a quiet technical footnote to a province that has spent more than a century occasionally doing its clocks a little differently than its neighbors.
Frequently Asked Questions
What time zone is New Brunswick in?
The whole of New Brunswick uses the America/Moncton time zone (ADT). Local time is 3 hours behind UTC (UTC-3), and all cities in the region show the same time.
Is the time in New Brunswick the same as in Ottawa?
No. Moncton, the main city of New Brunswick, is currently 1 hour ahead of Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Do clocks change in New Brunswick?
Yes. The next clock change in New Brunswick is on November 1, 2026, when clocks move back from 02:00 to 01:00 local time.
What is the main city of New Brunswick?
Moncton is the main city of New Brunswick, with a population of about 86,106. The time, sunrise and sunset shown on this page are based on Moncton.
Which airport is closest to Moncton?
Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport (YQM) serves Moncton directly. Flight arrival and departure times there are shown in local time.
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