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9–17 in Sapporo vs UTC
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- 文化の日3 Nov 2026
- 七五三15 Nov 2026
- 勤労感謝の日23 Nov 2026
- クリスマス25 Dec 2026
- 大晦日31 Dec 2026
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About Sapporo
Home to roughly 1,952,356 residents, Sapporo is a notable city in Japan. Its terrain rests around 19 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Sapporo is anchored to the Asia/Tokyo time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (43.06°).
Locally, prices are quoted in JPY and the international dialing code is +81. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Sapporo
The current local time in Sapporo, Japan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Sapporo uses the IANA time zone Asia/Tokyo, currently UTC+9.
Whether Sapporo 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.
Sapporo is currently 14 hours ahead of New York.
Sapporo is currently 9 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Sapporo are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (43.0618, 141.3545).
Japan uses the JPY currency and the +81 international dialing code.
Sapporo sits at 43.0618° N, 141.3545° E, 19 m above sea level, in Japan.