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: 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Hyderabad is 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in New York.
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Hyderabad is when New York is also working, at 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM their time. Because New York is 9.5 hours behind Hyderabad, the shared window is only about 1 hour. A fixed slot at 5:30 PM in Hyderabad (8:00 AM in New York) saves a lot of back-and-forth. Heads up: because New York changes its clocks and Hyderabad doesn't, the difference moves by an hour twice a year. Confirm the overlap around the DST switch.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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New York America/New York |
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. -
London to New York is five hours apart, except for the five weeks a year when it isn't. Exact overlap windows for every US zone, the 2026 DST mismatch dates, and where to put the recurring sync. -
Slack converts timestamps automatically and shows everyone's local time, but it can't fix a bare '3 PM' typed into a channel. The settings worth changing and the habits that do the rest. -