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 3:00 PM in Seoul is 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Wellington.
Target 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Seoul, which lands at 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM for the Wellington side. Wellington is 3 hours ahead of Seoul, but you'd hardly notice — 7 hours of shared hours makes this feel like working in neighbouring time zones. For part of the year the maths changes: Wellington observes daylight saving, Seoul does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
| 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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Wellington Pacific/Auckland |
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. -