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🇨🇦 Toronto (UTC−4) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 1 hour difference — Toronto is ahead
Best Time to Meet
🇨🇦 10:00–17:00 in Toronto = 🇺🇸 09:00–16:00 in Chicago7 hours of overlap within standard business hours (09:00–17:00)
24-Hour Schedule
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| 🇨🇦 Toronto | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Chicago | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
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Open Meeting Planner →Calls between Toronto and Chicago usually connect banking and technology on one side with finance and derivatives and logistics on the other. Toronto runs 1 hour ahead of Chicago.
Both cities work Monday to Friday, Toronto typically 09:00–17:00 and Chicago 08:30–17:30 local time. On the Toronto side the dates that break a schedule are Canada Day (1 July) and Thanksgiving (second Monday of October); on the Chicago side, Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July). Replies slow in Toronto during the week between Christmas and New Year and in Chicago during Thanksgiving week and the last week of December.
Book between 10:00–17:00 in Toronto (09:00–16:00 in Chicago); 7 hours of overlap means neither side takes the call early or late. Both cities change their clocks, on different dates, so the gap is an hour off for a few weeks each spring and autumn.
Toronto is 1 hour ahead of Chicago. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
10:00–17:00 Toronto time, which is 09:00–16:00 in Chicago — the 7-hour stretch when both are inside 09:00–17:00.
Yes, but not on the same dates, so for a few weeks each spring and autumn the gap is an hour narrower or wider than usual.
The ones that most often surprise the other side are Canada Day (1 July) and Thanksgiving (second Monday of October) in Toronto and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago.
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