Niigata, 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 ) Niigata, Japan |
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Niigata time zone and UTC offset
Clocks in Niigata 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 Niigata.
Around 797,591 people live in Niigata, making it the 2nd largest of the 208 Japan cities covered here.
Niigata compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Niigata is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Niigata is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Niigata is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Niigata is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Niigata is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Niigata is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Niigata is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Niigata is 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Niigata is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Niigata is 12 hours ahead |
When Niigata and other cities overlap
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Niigata local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Niigata | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Niigata | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Niigata | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 14:00–17:00 in Niigata | 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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