Vancouver

Canada • Pacific Time

Time Zone

Vancouver uses Pacific Time (PST / PDT), currently running at UTC−8 (winter) / UTC−7 (summer). Clocks spring forward one hour in mid-March and fall back in early November, on the same schedule as the United States Pacific Time zone.

Business & Commerce

Vancouver, Canada's major Pacific Coast city, operates on Pacific Time (PT) — Pacific Standard Time (PST, UTC−8) in winter and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−7) in summer — sharing its clock exactly with Seattle and Los Angeles and following the same DST transition schedule. Vancouver is Canada's busiest port by tonnes of cargo handled, with significant container and bulk commodity traffic across the Pacific to Asia. The technology industry has grown substantially in Vancouver over the past two decades, with U.S. technology companies opening Canadian engineering offices partly to benefit from immigration advantages — making Vancouver's Pacific Time alignment with Silicon Valley a routine matter for cross-border tech operations. At PST, Vancouver is three hours behind Toronto and New York, and eight hours behind London, placing it at the far western edge of the North American business day.