Time in Hōfu, Japan

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

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 Hōfu.

Hōfu has roughly 116,925 residents and ranks 184th by population among the Japan cities on this site.

Current gap between Hōfu and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Hōfu time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

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 zone, same time — each of these sits on Asia/Tokyo alongside Hōfu, including through any clock change.

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