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🇨🇦 Toronto (UTC−4) · 🇨🇭 Zurich (UTC+1) · 5 hours difference — Zurich is ahead
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🇨🇦 09:00–12:00 in Toronto = 🇨🇭 14:00–17:00 in Zurich3 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 |
| 🇨🇭 Zurich | 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 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 |
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Open Meeting Planner →Toronto and Zurich share banking, technology and insurance as core industries, which is where the traffic between them comes from. Put simply, when it is 09:00 in Toronto it is already 5 hours later in Zurich.
The working week is Monday to Friday on both sides: roughly 09:00–17:00 in Toronto and 08:00–17:00 in Zurich. On the Toronto side the dates that break a schedule are Canada Day (1 July) and Thanksgiving (second Monday of October); on the Zurich side, Swiss National Day (1 August) and Easter Monday (March or April).
Book between 09:00–12:00 in Toronto (14:00–17:00 in Zurich); 3 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.
Zurich is 5 hours ahead of Toronto. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
09:00–12:00 Toronto time, which is 14:00–17:00 in Zurich — the 3-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 Swiss National Day (1 August) and Easter Monday (March or April) in Zurich.
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