Tokyo to New York Time

Tokyo to New York conversion chart

Every full hour of Thursday, October 15, 2026 in Tokyo, and the time in New York. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Daylight saving time in Tokyo and New York

• Tokyo: Japan Standard Time, JST (UTC+9), with no clock changes: Japan does not use daylight saving time.
• New York: Eastern Time, EST (UTC−5) in winter and EDT (UTC−4) in summer. Clocks go forward 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.

Tokyo keeps JST, UTC+9, in every season, so the gap moves only when New York switches: March 8 and November 1, 2026, and March 14 and November 7, 2027. Once New York switches on March 8, New York is 13 hours behind Tokyo, until the November 1 switch puts New York back at 14 hours behind.

Only New York changes its clocks, so the gap follows its dates. With EDT in force, New York is 13 hours behind Tokyo. With EST in force, New York is 14 hours behind Tokyo. The highlighted rows are the 254 days on EST:

Tokyo to New York hour by hour

Find the Tokyo time on the left and read off New York: 13 hours behind and 14 hours behind, one column each. The rows run from 6 AM to 11 PM in Tokyo. Not one of these Tokyo hours falls inside 9 AM to 5 PM in New York as well, so nothing is highlighted.

Office hours and the best time to meet

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday on both sides, for each gap of the year:

• 13 hours apart (JST with EDT), 238 days of 2026: The 9-to-5 days in Tokyo and New York do not overlap. The smallest compromise is 7:00 AM in Tokyo, 6:00 PM the day before in New York: an extra 2 hours in each city. At the other end of the day, 7:00 PM in Tokyo is 6:00 AM in New York, which means 3 hours in each city outside office hours.
• 14 hours apart (JST with EST), 127 days of 2026: No hour of the Tokyo workday falls inside the New York workday. The least awkward hour starts at 7:30 AM in Tokyo, which is 5:30 PM the day before in New York; the workday runs over by 1 hour 30 minutes in each city. At the other end of the day, 7:30 PM in Tokyo is 5:30 AM in New York, which means 3 hours 30 minutes in each city outside office hours.

The workweek in Tokyo and New York

For a Monday to Friday week with 9-to-5 office hours in both cities:

Monday 9:00 AM in Tokyo is Sunday 8:00 PM in New York, and Friday 5:00 PM in New York is Saturday 6:00 AM in Tokyo. Those are the two edges of the shared workweek. In between, Tokyo and New York never have an office hour in common.

For 13 hours of every 24, New York is still on the previous date: from midnight to 1:00 PM in Tokyo, the New York calendar shows yesterday.

A rule of thumb: to subtract 13 hours, add 11 hours and move one day back. 9:00 AM in Tokyo becomes 8:00 PM the day before in New York.

Tokyo and New York against UTC

In 2026, Tokyo is at UTC+9 in both January and July, while New York is at UTC−5 in January and UTC−4 in July.

In the IANA time zone database, Tokyo is Asia/Tokyo and New York is America/New_York; your browser converts with that data.

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, the hour table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• timeanddate.com: time zone and clock changes in Tokyo
• NIST: Daylight Saving Time rules
• timeanddate.com: clock changes in New York
• IANA: Time Zone Database

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 14, 2026.

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