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 Lisbon is 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul.
Book within 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Lisbon time (4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul) and both teams will be at work. Overlap is at a premium — roughly 2 hours — so claim 8:00 AM in Lisbon (4:00 PM in Seoul) for recurring calls and keep them on time. Don't be caught out by clock changes — Lisbon observes daylight saving and Seoul doesn't, so the offset varies by an hour through the year.
| 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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Seoul Asia/Seoul |
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. -
WorldTimeBuddy is a very good time converter. Timezoners is a shared overlap board for a team you meet with every week. An honest comparison of where each one wins. -
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. -