Business hours by country
See the time where your recipient is, and when all of them are at work together.
For most of the year Toronto trails Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Rome by six hours and Lisbon by five, while Vancouver is three hours behind Toronto. This live board gives the current time in the seven countries Faxturbo delivers to, indicates whether offices are open (taken as 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays) and computes the overlap for today.
Live board
| Country | Time there | Offices | Common window (your local time) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | — | — | — |
| Canada | — | — | — |
| France | — | — | — |
| Germany | — | — | — |
| Italy | — | — | — |
| Portugal | — | — | — |
| Spain | — | — | — |
Best overlap today
Calculating…
Hours are an approximation of 9 am to 5 pm from Monday to Friday and ignore public holidays. Clock changes for daylight saving are handled automatically.
Six time zones in Canada
The board takes Toronto to stand for Canada. Depending on the province, the offset from Brussels runs from four and a half hours (Newfoundland) up to nine hours (British Columbia).
- Pacific — Vancouver—
- Mountain — Edmonton—
- Central — Winnipeg—
- Eastern — Toronto, Ottawa—
- Atlantic — Halifax—
- Newfoundland — St. John’s—
Choosing the right moment to fax across time zones
Transmitting a fax takes a minute or two whatever the hour. The clock matters for what comes next: a page dropped in an unattended tray on a Friday night may lie under other paper until Monday. Sending while the recipient is at work makes it more likely that the fax is picked up the same day.
Inside Canada the spread is already wide. A clinic in Halifax faxing a pharmacy in Vancouver is four hours ahead of it, and St. John’s is half an hour further east again. From Ontario to Europe the shared hours are few, because by the time offices open in Toronto much of the European day has passed. Daylight saving complicates things since North America and Europe change on different dates: for two to three weeks in March and about a week in late October or early November, the difference is one hour smaller.
The board uses the IANA time-zone database kept current by your browser, and each day it recomputes the slot in which all seven countries are between 9 am and 5 pm. Real opening hours depend on the organisation. A public service, a court registry or a pharmacy publishes its own on its website, which is worth a look when a fax cannot wait.
About time zones
- May I send a fax when offices are closed?
- Yes. Faxturbo can send at any hour, and the receiving machine accepts the pages even if nobody is standing by. Office hours only indicate when someone is likely to read it.
- When do Canada and Europe overlap?
- Assuming 9 am to 5 pm, for about two hours: 9 to 11 am in Toronto matches 3 to 5 pm in Brussels. Western Canada has no overlap at all, since 9 am in Vancouver is already 6 pm in Belgium.
- Does the board consider public holidays?
- No, because they vary from one country to another, and even by province or region. Only weekdays are considered, so look at the local calendar before an important send.
Keep exploring
More pages to help you prepare, send or track a fax.