Sōka, 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 ) Sōka, Japan |
Current Time in other Cities of Japan
Sōka time zone and UTC offset
Clocks in Sōka 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 Sōka.
Sōka has roughly 249,645 residents and ranks 71st by population among the Japan cities on this site.
Time difference between Sōka and other cities
How Sōka lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Sōka is 13 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Sōka is 16 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Sōka is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Sōka is 7 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Sōka is 5 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Sōka is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Sōka is 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Sōka is 1 hour behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Sōka is 12 hours ahead |
Best time to call Sōka
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Sōka time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Shanghai | 10:00–17:00 in Sōka | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–16:00 in Sōka | 7 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 12:30–17:00 in Sōka | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 14:00–17:00 in Sōka | 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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