| 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 |
Sendai, 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 Sendai 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 Sendai 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 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.
Sendai (Japan) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:31, sunset at 17:21. 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
UTC+9 · 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 morale project during an economic slump.
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.
Sendai lies at 140.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+9, is built around the 135°E meridian. The 5.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 23 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:37 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 50m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 30m. The swing between them is 5h 20m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Sendai the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 04:12, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 19:04. 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 Sendai that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 minutes at the solstice.
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 Sendai, Japan is Asia/Tokyo with a current UTC offset of UTC+9.
Sendai has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 38.27°N, 140.87°E.
Sendai gets 14h 50m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Sendai falls at about 11:37 on UTC+9 standard time, because the city sits 5.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Festival of Handmade Paper Decorations: Sendai's Tanabata festival hangs thousands of handmade paper decorations through the arcades each August and draws around two million visitors over three days.