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 11:00 AM in Phoenix is 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Edinburgh.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Phoenix — your colleagues in Edinburgh will be online from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Edinburgh is 7 hours ahead of Phoenix, leaving about 3 hours of daily overlap — enough for most meetings if you don't leave them too late in the day. These times hold for most of the year, but Edinburgh's daylight saving (which Phoenix doesn't use) shifts them by an hour twice annually.
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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. -
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. -