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Tokyo — Asia/Tokyo

The current local time in the Asia/Tokyo IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Japan. The zone is currently at UTC +09:00 · GMT+9 and does not observe daylight saving time.

Asia/Tokyo

01:57:31

Monday, 12 October 2026 GMT+9

Zone information

IANA designation

Asia/Tokyo

Region: Asia

Reference pages: JST

Offset & DST

Current UTC offset: +09:00

Daylight saving: Not observed

Countries using Asia/Tokyo

Tokyo vs. major cities

How far Tokyo is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Tokyo, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.

City Difference At 09:00 in Tokyo Shared office hours
New York · United States −13 h 20:00 (prev. day) None
Los Angeles · United States −16 h 17:00 (prev. day) None
São Paulo · Brazil −12 h 21:00 (prev. day) None
London · United Kingdom −8 h 01:00 None
Paris · France −7 h 02:00 16:00–17:00
Johannesburg · South Africa −7 h 02:00 16:00–17:00
Dubai · United Arab Emirates −5 h 04:00 14:00–17:00
Delhi · India −3:30 h 05:30 12:30–17:00
Singapore · Singapore −1 h 08:00 10:00–17:00
Beijing · China −1 h 08:00 10:00–17:00

Shared office hours are shown in Tokyo time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.

Clock changes in Tokyo

Tokyo has kept the same UTC +09:00 offset without daylight saving time since at least 1970.

No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027: Tokyo stays on UTC +09:00 all year.

Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.

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Zones on the same clock as Tokyo

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