Best time to meet between San Francisco and Tokyo
Both cities are loaded with standard working hours. Green slots work in San Francisco and Tokyo.
San Francisco to Tokyo time difference
Tokyo is currently 16 hours ahead of San Francisco. When it is 9:00 AM in San Francisco, it is 1:00 AM in Tokyo the next day.
With standard 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM workdays there are no shared working hours, so every meeting stretches someone's morning or evening. The timeline above shows exactly whose, and by how much.
| San Francisco (PDT) | Tokyo (GMT+9) |
|---|---|
| 7:00 AM | 11:00 PM |
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 AM (next day) |
| 9:00 AM | 1:00 AM (next day) |
| 10:00 AM | 2:00 AM (next day) |
| 11:00 AM | 3:00 AM (next day) |
| 12:00 PM | 4:00 AM (next day) |
| 1:00 PM | 5:00 AM (next day) |
| 2:00 PM | 6:00 AM (next day) |
| 3:00 PM | 7:00 AM (next day) |
| 4:00 PM | 8:00 AM (next day) |
| 5:00 PM | 9:00 AM (next day) |
| 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM (next day) |
| 7:00 PM | 11:00 AM (next day) |
Offsets reflect today's clocks and shift with daylight saving time. The planner above always computes the exact day you pick.
How it works
Add each city on the call by name, abbreviation (PST, IST, CEST), or UTC offset. We map it to its real IANA time zone: DST, half-hour offsets, all of it.
Set everyone's working hours. Every 15-minute slot of the day is scored: in-hours beats awake, awake beats asleep.
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Related time zone pairs
Each pair has its own page with the overlap already loaded.
- San Francisco ↔ LondonA narrow window: early Pacific mornings before the UK signs off.
- San Francisco ↔ SydneyLate Pacific afternoon is Sydney's next morning.
- New York ↔ Tokyo13 hours apart. Early US mornings meet Tokyo's evening.
- San Francisco ↔ Singapore15 to 16 hours apart: late Pacific afternoon, Singapore morning.
- New York ↔ LondonUS mornings are London afternoons, a 5-hour spread.
- New York ↔ MumbaiUS mornings reach India's early evening, 9.5 hours ahead.
Also: London ↔ Singapore, Los Angeles ↔ London, Chicago ↔ London, Toronto ↔ London, New York ↔ Paris, New York ↔ Singapore, New York ↔ Sydney, London ↔ Mumbai, London ↔ Dubai, London ↔ Hong Kong, London ↔ Sydney, Los Angeles ↔ Sydney
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