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9–17 in Tokyo vs UTC
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- 海の日20 Jul 2026
- 山の日11 Aug 2026
- 敬老の日21 Sept 2026
- 国民の休日22 Sept 2026
- 秋分の日23 Sept 2026
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About Tokyo
Home to roughly 13,929,286 residents, Tokyo is one of the world's largest urban centres in Japan. The city sits at 40 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Asia/Tokyo zone governs civic time in Tokyo; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 35.68° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Locally, prices are quoted in JPY and the international dialing code is +81. This page exposes Tokyo's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Tokyo
The current local time in Tokyo, Japan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Tokyo uses the IANA time zone Asia/Tokyo, currently UTC+9.
Whether Tokyo observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Tokyo) is the source of truth.
Tokyo is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
Tokyo is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Tokyo are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (35.6762, 139.6503).
Japan uses the JPY currency and the +81 international dialing code.
Tokyo sits at 35.6762° N, 139.6503° E, 40 m above sea level, in Japan.