Satellite View of Yellowknife
Yellowknife sits at 62.454, -114.3718. Drag to pan, click then scroll to zoom, and switch between satellite, terrain and street layers.
Canada · America/Edmonton
Current Time in Northwest Territories
Live local time in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, with today's date, the UTC offset, the difference from your own clock, and current weather.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
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Reference
Northwest Territories at a Glance
| Region | Northwest Territories |
| Abbreviation | NT |
| Country | Canada |
| Reference city | Yellowknife |
| IANA time zone | America/Edmonton |
| Current UTC offset | — |
| Coordinates | 62.454, -114.3718 |
| Day of year | — |
| ISO week number | — |
| Season in Yellowknife | — |
| Daylight today | — |
| Sun altitude now | — |
| Moon phase | — |
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Time Differences
How Yellowknife lines up against the places people most often need to coordinate with.
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Differences are measured against Yellowknife. For a specific date, use the converter.
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Understanding the offset
How Northwest Territories Time Works
The Zone, Not the Offset
Yellowknife sits in America/Edmonton. That name matters more than the number: an offset like the one shown above is only true today, whereas the zone name carries every rule about when the country changes its clocks. Software that stores offsets instead of zone names breaks at the next changeover.
Clock Changes
Whether Northwest Territories moves its clocks twice a year is baked into the America/Edmonton zone, so the offset above is always the one in force today. Places that stay on a fixed offset drift an hour relative to their neighbours for part of the year, which is the usual reason a recurring call slips.
One Zone Throughout
Northwest Territories runs on America/Edmonton throughout, so whatever the clock reads in Yellowknife is what it reads across the region.
Answers
Northwest Territories Time Questions
What time is it in Northwest Territories right now?
The clock at the top of this page shows the current local time in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, updating every second. It is calculated from the America/Edmonton zone using your browser's copy of the IANA time zone database, so daylight saving is applied automatically.
What time zone is Northwest Territories in?
Yellowknife uses the America/Edmonton zone, and the current UTC offset is shown in the panel above. Northwest Territories uses this one zone throughout, so the time is the same across the whole region.
Does Northwest Territories change its clocks?
The offset shown above already accounts for daylight saving wherever it applies, because it comes from the time zone database rather than a fixed number. If Northwest Territories is on a fixed offset all year, the panel simply never changes.
How do I convert Northwest Territories time to my own?
The comparison line above already shows the difference between Yellowknife and your own device clock. For a specific date rather than right now, use the time zone converter, which applies the daylight saving rules for the date you enter.
Where does the weather come from?
Open-Meteo, a free weather service. The request goes directly from your browser to their API, so nothing about your visit passes through our server. It reports current conditions and a short forecast for Yellowknife.