Your town will see a huge jump in daylight hours this March
Every community across Canada will see its greatest daily gain in sunlight during the month of March
March brings a reawakening across Canada. Temperatures are warming, snow starts to melt, and the sunlight lingers a little longer each day throughout the month.
How much daylight will your community gain over the next couple of weeks? It’s quite a bit—and it has nothing to do with the impending time change.
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March features the fastest gain in daylight out of the entire year. The Sun’s direct rays are creeping back into the northern hemisphere after a long winter of shining upon the south.
Our star’s path in the sky makes its fastest shift around the equinox, which occurs on Thursday, Mar. 20, 2025.
Folks up north win the greatest strides in sunlight, with Inuvik experiencing an average gain of about 8 minutes per day. But Toronto’s average daylight gain of about 4 minutes per day is nothing to sneeze at!
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Just about everyone in Canada will have gained at least an hour and a half of sunlight between the beginning and end of March. Winnipeg gains 1 hour and 52 minutes of extra sunshine throughout the month, while Edmonton is far enough north to clear two full hours of earned daylight.
It’s a breathtaking change for folks north of the Arctic Circle, however, where communities will gain three to four extra hours of daylight throughout the month. Inuvik is on track to tack on four full hours of daylight between Mar. 1 and Mar. 31.
While the pace will slow down after March, we’ll keep adding additional minutes of daylight straight through the summer solstice in the middle of June. Toronto will see about 15 hours and 26 minutes of daylight by the arrival of astronomical summer, while Calgary will peak with about 16 hours and 33 minutes between sunrise and sunset.