Japan · JST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Sendai, 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 Sendai 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 Sendai 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 Sendai lines up with 09:00–10:00 in London. Sendai 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 Sendai 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 Sendai.
Practical Info
Sendai (Japan) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 14.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:12, sunset at 19:06. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+9 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Japan
Capital
Tokyo
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
JST · Asia/Tokyo
Coordinates
38.27°N, 140.87°E
Currency
JPY (¥)
Calling Code
+81
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Japanese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Sendai's Tanabata festival hangs thousands of handmade paper decorations through the arcades each August and draws around two million visitors over three days. The city rebuilt the festival deliberately in 1928 as a depression-era morale project.
The clock: Sendai keeps UTC+9. The 2011 earthquake shifted Japan's main island by about 2.4 metres and shortened the Earth's day by roughly 1.8 microseconds.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
3h overlap