Time in Kitami, Japan

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

Kitami 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.

No seasonal adjustment applies in Kitami — UTC+09:00 is constant, which is worth remembering when a partner city moves its clocks twice a year.

Kitami has roughly 119,135 residents and ranks 177th by population among the Japan cities on this site.

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

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

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 Kitami, including through any clock change.

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