| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −8h | Becomes −9h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −7h | Becomes −8h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −5h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | ±0h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −13h | Becomes −14h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −16h | Becomes −17h on 1 Nov |
Fukuoka, Japan runs on UTC+9. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Fukuoka and New York is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Fukuoka and London is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with London. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Fukuoka lines up with 09:00–10:00 in London. Fukuoka and Tokyo currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Fukuoka lines up with 09:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Seoul, Pyongyang, Osaka. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Fukuoka.
Fukuoka (Japan) is home to roughly 1.6M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:12, sunset at 18:04. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Japan
Capital
Tokyo
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+9 · Asia/Tokyo
Coordinates
33.59°N, 130.40°E
Currency
JPY (¥)
Calling Code
+81
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Japanese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Fukuoka has around 100 licensed yatai — mobile food stalls that set up on the pavement each evening and are gone by morning. That is most of the ones left in Japan; other cities regulated them out of existence decades ago.
The clock: Fukuoka keeps UTC+9 but is Japan's westernmost major city, so its sunsets come nearly forty minutes after Tokyo's on the same clock.
Fukuoka lies at 130.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+9, is built around the 135°E meridian. The 4.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:18 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+9 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 55m. The swing between them is 4h 28m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Fukuoka the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 05:07, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 19:32. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Fukuoka that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Fukuoka, Japan is Asia/Tokyo with a current UTC offset of UTC+9.
Fukuoka has an estimated population of 1.6M and is located at coordinates 33.59°N, 130.40°E.
Fukuoka gets 14h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Fukuoka falls at about 12:18 on UTC+9 standard time, because the city sits 4.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City of Street Food Stalls: Fukuoka has around 100 licensed yatai — mobile food stalls that set up on the pavement each evening and are gone by morning.