Time in Chōfu, Japan

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Current time in Japan

Time zone: JST (UTC/GMT +09:00) — Asia/Tokyo

Local Clock Offset: Today, 1 H
Time zone: (UTC/GMT +9 ) Chōfu, Japan

Chōfu time zone and UTC offset

Local time here is JST, which sits 9 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+09:00. The canonical zone name is Asia/Tokyo, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.

Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+09:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Chōfu.

Around 212,977 people live in Chōfu, making it the 89th largest of the 208 Japan cities covered here.

Chōfu compared with major world cities

Live differences from Chōfu, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.

New York UTC-04:00 Chōfu is 13 hours ahead
Los Angeles UTC-07:00 Chōfu is 16 hours ahead
London UTC+01:00 Chōfu is 8 hours ahead
Paris UTC+02:00 Chōfu is 7 hours ahead
Dubai UTC+04:00 Chōfu is 5 hours ahead
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Chōfu is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Chōfu is 1 hour ahead
Sydney UTC+10:00 Chōfu is 1 hour behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Chōfu is 12 hours ahead

Best time to call Chōfu

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Chōfu local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

Shanghai 10:00–17:00 in Chōfu 7 hours overlap
Sydney 09:00–16:00 in Chōfu 7 hours overlap
Mumbai 12:30–17:00 in Chōfu 4.5 hours overlap
Dubai 14:00–17:00 in Chōfu 3 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles, London or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Same local time as Chōfu

These Japan cities also use Asia/Tokyo, so their clocks read identically to Chōfu at every moment of the year.

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