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: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Madrid.
Shoot for 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Seoul; your Madrid colleagues will see that as 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Madrid is 7 hours behind Seoul, so the practical overlap is about 3 hours — generous enough for meetings, tight enough to be worth booking ahead. For part of the year the maths changes: Madrid observes daylight saving, Seoul does not, shifting the overlap 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. -