Los Angeles to Tokyo Time

Los Angeles to Tokyo conversion chart

Every full hour of Tuesday, October 13, 2026 in Los Angeles, and the time in Tokyo. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Time difference over the year

The gap between Los Angeles and Tokyo for the next 12 months, with clock changes on both sides taken into account:

• Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026: Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles
• Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 13, 2027: Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles
• Mar 14, 2027 to Oct 12, 2027: Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles

Daylight saving time in Los Angeles and Tokyo

Los Angeles turns the clocks forward from PST to PDT at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November, a schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In 2026 the changes fall on March 8 and November 1, in 2027 on March 14 and November 7.

Tokyo stays on JST (UTC+9) all year: Japan does not use daylight saving time.

The gap takes 2 values across 2026 and 2027: 17 hours, 16 hours. 16 hours holds on most days; the highlighted rows are the 254 days with another gap, because one side has changed its clocks and the other has not:

Office hours that overlap

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday in both cities, this is the shared window for each gap of the year:

• 17 hours apart (PST with JST), 127 days of 2026: No shared office time. When Los Angeles starts work at 9:00 AM, it is 2:00 AM the next day in Tokyo; when Tokyo starts at 9:00 AM, it is 4:00 PM the day before in Los Angeles.
• 16 hours apart (PDT with JST), 238 days of 2026: No shared office time. When Los Angeles starts work at 9:00 AM, it is 1:00 AM the next day in Tokyo; when Tokyo starts at 9:00 AM, it is 5:00 PM the day before in Los Angeles.

Which time zones Los Angeles and Tokyo use

Los Angeles is on Pacific Time (PST in winter, PDT in summer), which is used in California, Washington state and most of Oregon and Nevada. Tokyo is on Japan Standard Time (JST), used in all of Japan.

Comparing more than two places? Add as many cities as you need in the time zone converter, or find a slot that works for everyone with the meeting planner. For timestamps from logs or APIs, the Unix timestamp converter turns them into readable dates.

Sources

The clock change rules above come from these pages. The dates, the gap table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• NIST: Daylight Saving Time rules
• timeanddate.com: Daylight Saving Time in the United States
• timeanddate.com: time zone and clock changes in Tokyo

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 13, 2026.

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