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9–17 in Osaka 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 Osaka
Home to roughly 2,691,185 residents, Osaka is a large regional centre in Japan. The city sits at 5 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Osaka keeps time on the Asia/Tokyo IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (34.69°).
Locally, prices are quoted in JPY and the international dialing code is +81. This page exposes Osaka'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 Osaka
The current local time in Osaka, Japan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Osaka uses the IANA time zone Asia/Tokyo, currently UTC+9.
Whether Osaka 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.
Osaka is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
Osaka is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Osaka are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (34.6937, 135.5023).
Japan uses the JPY currency and the +81 international dialing code.
Osaka sits at 34.6937° N, 135.5023° E, 5 m above sea level, in Japan.