Karatsu, Japan
Current time in Japan
Time zone: JST (UTC/GMT +09:00) — Asia/Tokyo
| Local Clock Offset: Today, 1 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +9 ) Karatsu, Japan |
Current Time in other Cities of Japan
What time zone is Karatsu in?
Karatsu keeps JST (9 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+09:00). Its database zone is Asia/Tokyo — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
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 Karatsu.
Population: about 117,663 — 182nd largest of the 208 Japan cities indexed here.
Time gaps from Karatsu right now
How Karatsu lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Karatsu is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Karatsu is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Karatsu is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Karatsu is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Karatsu is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Karatsu is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Karatsu is 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Karatsu is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Karatsu is 12 hours ahead |
When Karatsu and other cities overlap
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Karatsu local time.
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Karatsu | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Karatsu | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Karatsu | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 14:00–17:00 in Karatsu | 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.
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