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: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Osaka is 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Lisbon.
Both teams are at their desks between 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Osaka and 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Lisbon. Lisbon is 8 hours behind Osaka, giving you a slim 2 hours to work with. Punctuality matters; start right at 4:00 PM in Osaka (8:00 AM in Lisbon). One seasonal catch: Lisbon springs forward and falls back, but Osaka doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the year.
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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. -
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. -