Current Time in Japan

Quick answer: Japan uses Japan Standard Time (JST) · UTC+9 year-round · no daylight saving.

Japan uses Japan Standard Time (JST), which is UTC+9. The whole country runs on one timezone, from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.

Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so JST stays fixed all year. That makes the offset easy, but the distance from North America still creates awkward scheduling windows. A morning call in New York is already late evening in Tokyo.

For work, Japan time is often compared with India, Sydney, Taiwan, and the US West Coast. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, and Nagoya all use the same clock, so “Japan time” and “Tokyo time” usually mean the same thing in everyday scheduling.

The time zone database records daylight time in Japan in the summers of 1948 to 1951, during the Allied occupation, and none since. JST has been UTC+9 all year ever since.

The time zone database has no clock change for Japan between 2026 and 2028.

Japan’s standard office window is roughly 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM JST. That works well for East Asia and Australia, but it’s tough for US teams.

If you’re in New York, a 7:00 PM call is already 8:00 or 9:00 AM the next day in Japan depending on DST. That next-day detail matters for deadlines, interviews, and support handoffs.

For a live overlap finder, use the meeting scheduler or convert an exact time with the time zone converter.