Japan · JST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Sapporo, Japan runs on UTC+9. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 13-hour difference between Sapporo and New York. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. There is a 8-hour difference between Sapporo and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Sapporo lines up with 09:00–10:00 in London. Sapporo 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 Sapporo 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 Sapporo.
Practical Info
Sapporo (Japan) is home to roughly 1.9M people. Today brings about 15.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 03:54, sunset at 19:18. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Japan
Capital
Tokyo
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
JST · Asia/Tokyo
Coordinates
43.06°N, 141.35°E
Currency
JPY (¥)
Calling Code
+81
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Japanese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Sapporo receives around five metres of snowfall a year, more than any other city of over a million people on Earth. The city budgets heavily for removal, trucking millions of cubic metres out each winter, and turns some of it into the February Snow Festival.
The clock: Sapporo keeps UTC+9 with the rest of Japan, but sits far enough north and east that its midsummer sun is up before 04:00 — one of the reasons Hokkaidō has campaigned for its own time zone.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
3h overlap