Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo holds Japan Standard Time year-round with no daylight saving, a deliberate stability prized by Japanese business culture. The Tokyo Stock Exchange opens at 09:00 JST, fourteen hours ahead of New York. Punctuality is cultural here — meeting times are treated as exact, not approximate.
Computed via NOAA solar equations for today's date. Local clock times shown below convert the UTC arc into Asia/Tokyo.
- Sunrise
- 06:03
- Solar noon
- 11:25
- Sunset
- 16:46
- Day length
- 10h 42m
Approximate local convention; individual organisations vary significantly.
Current
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The facts, computed.
Read live from the IANA time-zone database — never hand-typed, so it can't go stale.
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)
- UTC offset
- UTC+09:00
- IANA identifier
- Asia/Tokyo
- Daylight saving (2026)
- Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time and stays on GMT+9 (UTC+09:00) all year.
Hours are Tokyo's current offset relative to each city, daylight saving included.
- What time zone is Tokyo in?
- Tokyo is in the Japan Standard Time zone (GMT+9), currently UTC+09:00.
- Does Tokyo observe daylight saving time?
- Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time and stays on GMT+9 (UTC+09:00) all year.
- What is Tokyo's UTC offset right now?
- Tokyo is currently UTC+09:00 (GMT+9).
- What is the time difference between Tokyo and London?
- Tokyo is 9 hours ahead of London right now.