What time is it in Japan right now? 🇯🇵
It is 5:09 pm in Tokyo right now, Thursday, November 5, 2026. Japan runs on JST at UTC+9. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Japan now
Japan keeps a single time zone, Asia/Tokyo, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 5:09 pm. The offset is UTC+9, and it never moves.
The offset from UTC in Tokyo is UTC+9, which is 9 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Tokyo is 12:00 am UTC.
Japan time zone in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Japan.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Asia/Tokyo | 5:09 pm | UTC+9 | JST | never moves |
Does Japan have daylight saving time?
No part of Japan moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+9 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Japan is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Japan an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Japan is on the map
The marker is on Tokyo, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Tokyo. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Tokyo on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Tokyo and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Tokyo |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 12:09 am | 17 hours behind Tokyo |
| Chicago, IL | 2:09 am | 15 hours behind Tokyo |
| New York, NY | 3:09 am | 14 hours behind Tokyo |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 5:09 am | 12 hours behind Tokyo |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:09 am | 9 hours behind Tokyo |
| Paris, France | 9:09 am | 8 hours behind Tokyo |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 10:09 am | 7 hours behind Tokyo |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 12:09 pm | 5 hours behind Tokyo |
| Delhi, India | 1:39 pm | 3 hours 30 minutes behind Tokyo |
| Singapore, Singapore | 4:09 pm | 1 hour behind Tokyo |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:09 pm | 2 hours ahead of Tokyo |
Best time to call Japan
A nine to five working day in Tokyo against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Tokyo | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 14 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 17 hours ahead | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| London the United Kingdom | 9 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| Mumbai India | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead | 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm |
Daylight hours in Tokyo today
In Tokyo the sun rose at 6:07 am today and sets at 4:43 pm, giving 10 hours 36 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 1 minute 53 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:25 am.
Solar noon in Tokyo is 11:25 am, which is 35 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 139.65 degrees east while its clock is set to Asia/Tokyo, plus the equation of time, which today runs 16.5 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Tokyo tonight
The moon is waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 16 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 as Japan reads the date, at 11:53 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Japan cities
The 293 cities this site covers inside Japan, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
Every IANA time zone in Japan
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Asia/Tokyo rather than UTC+9 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Japan time to another zone
The converter pages below take JST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Japan
Japan sits in Asia, carries the ISO country code JP and a population of about 124,520,000. Its capital Tokyo is at 35.68 degrees north, 139.65 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Japan
Read on Japan's own clock, so the day counts below start from November 5 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Asia, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2026 | Tuesday | December solstice, 5:50 am local astronomical | 47 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 50 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 56 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 57 |
| March 21, 2027 | Sunday | March equinox, 5:24 am local astronomical | 136 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 177 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 11:10 pm local astronomical | 228 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 3:01 pm local astronomical | 322 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 11:42 am local astronomical | 412 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 415 |
Sun and moon in Tokyo today
The sun is up in Tokyo for 10 hours 36 minutes today, from 6:07 am to 4:43 pm. The moon rises in Tokyo at 1:51 am and sets at 2:20 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 17% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 8.1 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Tokyo |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:40 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:10 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:40 am |
| Sunrise | 6:07 am |
| Solar noon | 11:25 am |
| Sunset | 4:43 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:09 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 5:40 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:09 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Tokyo | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:40 am to 5:50 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:50 am to 6:43 am | 0h 53m |
| Evening golden hour | 4:07 pm to 4:59 pm | 0h 53m |
| Evening blue hour | 4:59 pm to 5:09 pm | 0h 10m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Tokyo |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 1:51 am |
| Moonset | 2:20 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 17% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 25.5 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 384,000 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Japan and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Japan, read across 4 other places. Columns are Japan local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Japan local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JapanJST UTC+9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 7-1 | 8-1 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 20:30-1 | 21:30-1 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 |
No hour on Thursday, November 5, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Japan and Los Angeles are 17 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Japan it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Japan, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Tokyo
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Tokyo at 35.68 degrees north, 139.65 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Tokyo. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday November 5 | 4:40 am | 6:07 am | 11:25 am | 2:20 pm | 4:43 pm | 6:04 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 4:41 am | 6:08 am | 11:25 am | 2:20 pm | 4:42 pm | 6:04 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 4:42 am | 6:09 am | 11:25 am | 2:19 pm | 4:41 pm | 6:03 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 4:42 am | 6:10 am | 11:25 am | 2:18 pm | 4:40 pm | 6:02 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 4:43 am | 6:11 am | 11:25 am | 2:18 pm | 4:39 pm | 6:02 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 4:44 am | 6:12 am | 11:25 am | 2:17 pm | 4:38 pm | 6:01 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 4:45 am | 6:13 am | 11:25 am | 2:17 pm | 4:38 pm | 6:00 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Tokyo, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Tokyo
From Tokyo the qibla is 293.0 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 23.0 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 9,472 km away, 5,886 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Tokyo to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Tokyo before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Questions about the time in Japan
- What time is it in Japan right now?
- It is 5:09 pm in Tokyo as this page was served, Thursday, November 5, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Japan in?
- Japan uses Asia/Tokyo, currently JST at UTC+9.
- What is the UTC offset in Japan?
- UTC+9 in Tokyo at this instant.
- Does Japan observe daylight saving time?
- No. Japan stays on UTC+9 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Tokyo today?
- 4:43 pm, after a sunrise at 6:07 am and 10 hours 36 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Japan from the United States?
- The working days do not overlap: Tokyo is 14 hours ahead of New York, so one side has to take the call outside office hours.
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