Time in Honchō, 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 ) Honchō, Japan

Time zone in Honchō

Clocks in Honchō are set to JST, 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00). Software that asks for a region wants Asia/Tokyo — the IANA identifier for this zone.

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 Honchō.

Population: about 644,668 — 8th largest of the 208 Japan cities indexed here.

Honchō compared with major world cities

Read this as: relative to each city below, Honchō is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

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

Best time to call Honchō

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

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

Cities on the same clock as Honchō

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

Chiba Niigata Hamamatsu Sakai Kumamoto Okayama Shizuoka Kawaguchi