Canadian Postal Codes

Premium Edition

The Premium Edition contains a complete listing of all Canadian Postal Codes, associated geographic coordinates, time zone with daylight savings time indicator, and primary area code.

The geographic latitude and longitude coordinates are to the center of the postal code FSA. This product does not provide LDU or street level coordinate granularity.

Canadian Postal Codes Assignments File data sample
Field	Data Type	Field Description
POSTALCODE	CHAR(7)	The six character Postal Code.
CITY	VARCHAR(128)	The preferred name for the city, town, or unique organization.
ABBREVIATION	VARCHAR(13)	Standard Canada Post 13 character city name abbreviation.
PROVINCE	CHAR(2)	Two character abbreviation of the province or territory.
NPA1	CHAR(3)	Primary telephone area code associated with the postal code area.
NPA2	CHAR(3)	Additional telephone area code associated with the postal code area. Generally specifies an area code overlay found in larger metropolitan areas only.
GMT	CHAR(2)	Time zone the postal code is located in. Determined using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) offset also referred to as hours relative to GMT. NT - Newfoundland UTC -3:30 hours AT - Atlantic UTC -4 hours ET - Eastern UTC -5 hours CT - Central UTC -6 hours MT - Mountain UTC -7 hours PT - Pacific UTC -8 hours AK - Alaskan UTC -9 hours HT - Hawaiian-Aleutian UTC -10 hours AS - Samoa UTC -11 (American Samoa) CH - Chamorro UTC +10 (Guam and Northern Mariana Islands)
DST	CHAR(1)	Daylight savings time recognized, (Y)es or (N)o.
CODETYPE	CHAR(1)	Specifies the basic category of the Postal Code (R)ural or (U)rban
NAMETYPE	CHAR(1)	Specifies whether the city name field specifies the preferred or an alternate name for the Postal Code.
LATITUDE	DOUBLE	Latitude in decimal degrees to the center of the postal code FSA.
LONGITUDE	DOUBLE	Longitude in decimal degrees to the center of the postal code FSA.