Best Meeting Times Between US and Japan Teams (2026)
8 AM Tokyo is 4 PM in Los Angeles the day before. West Coast afternoon windows, the East Coast dead zone, and why the Philippines slot is an hour off. -
Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Hamburg is 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul.
Hamburg and Seoul overlap from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (Hamburg) to the equivalent 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul — that's your meeting window. The shared window is only 2 hours — treat 8:00 AM in Hamburg (4:00 PM in Seoul) as the one fixed point and plan everything else around it. Note the seasonal wrinkle: when Hamburg is on daylight saving and Seoul isn't, the gap between them grows or shrinks by an hour.
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8 AM Tokyo is 4 PM in Los Angeles the day before. West Coast afternoon windows, the East Coast dead zone, and why the Philippines slot is an hour off. -