Current time in Sapporo, Japan
Japan Standard Time
UTC+09:00- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time · Asia/Tokyo
- UTC offset now
- UTC+09:00
- Abbreviation
- JST
- Daylight saving
- Not observed: UTC+9 all year.
No clock changes are scheduled.
- Difference from you
- —
- Location
- Hokkaido, Japan · 43.07° N, 141.35° E
- Population
- 1,973,832
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Sapporo at about 11:35 standard time: the clock runs about 25 min behind the sun. Over the year, solar noon falls between 11:18 and 11:49 on the local clock.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 05:38 | 17:46 | 12h 08m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 03:55 | 19:17 | 15h 22m |
| September equinox (Sep 23) | 05:22 | 17:31 | 12h 09m |
| December solstice (Dec 22) | 07:03 | 16:02 | 9h 00m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 05:29–17:20 (11 h 51 min of daylight)
Times are local clock times for the city centre, computed with the NOAA solar equations; hills and refraction can shift them by a few minutes.
Nearby cities
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia · 450 km · clock 2 h ahead
- Sendai · 540 km
- Khabarovsk, Russia · 770 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Saitama · 810 km
- Tokyo · 830 km
- Yokohama · 860 km