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9–17 in Kyoto vs UTC
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About Kyoto
Home to roughly 1,475,183 residents, Kyoto is a mid-sized urban centre in Japan. Its terrain rests around 56 m of elevation.
The Asia/Tokyo zone governs civic time in Kyoto; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (35.01°).
Japan's currency is JPY and its calling prefix is +81. This page exposes Kyoto'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 Kyoto
The current local time in Kyoto, Japan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Kyoto uses the IANA time zone Asia/Tokyo, currently UTC+9.
Whether Kyoto 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.
Kyoto is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
Kyoto is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Kyoto are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (35.0116, 135.7681).
Japan uses the JPY currency and the +81 international dialing code.
Kyoto sits at 35.0116° N, 135.7681° E, 56 m above sea level, in Japan.