Tokyo to Sydney Time

Tokyo to Sydney conversion chart

Every full hour of Wednesday, October 14, 2026 in Tokyo, and the time in Sydney. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Time difference over the year

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

• Oct 13, 2026 to Apr 3, 2027: Sydney is 2 hours ahead of Tokyo
• Apr 4, 2027 to Oct 2, 2027: Sydney is 1 hour ahead of Tokyo
• Oct 3, 2027 to Oct 12, 2027: Sydney is 2 hours ahead of Tokyo

Daylight saving time in Tokyo and Sydney

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

Sydney turns the clocks forward from AEST to AEDT at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in October and back at 3:00 AM on the first Sunday in April, the dates New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT share, while Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not change their clocks. In 2026 the changes fall on April 5 and October 4, in 2027 on April 4 and October 3.

The gap takes 2 values across 2026 and 2027: 2 hours, 1 hour. 2 hours holds on most days; the highlighted rows are the 364 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:

• 2 hours apart (JST with AEDT), 183 days of 2026: 6 hours of shared office time: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Tokyo is 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Sydney.
• 1 hour apart (JST with AEST), 182 days of 2026: 7 hours of shared office time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Tokyo is 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Sydney.

Which time zones Tokyo and Sydney use

Tokyo is on Japan Standard Time (JST), which is used in all of Japan. Sydney is on Australian Eastern Time (AEST in winter, AEDT in summer), used in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT with daylight saving, and in Queensland without it.

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.

• timeanddate.com: time zone and clock changes in Tokyo
• NSW Government: Daylight saving
• timeanddate.com: Daylight Saving Time in Australia

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

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