Current Time in Kyoto, Japan

How Kyoto Keeps Time

Kyoto keeps JST, UTC+9. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Kyoto; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Kyoto runs on the Asia/Tokyo zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+9 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Kyoto at 6:10 am today and sets at 5:11 pm — 11 hours 1 minute of daylight, with solar noon at 11:41 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (35.01, 135.77), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Kyoto has about 14 hours 31 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 48 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 43 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

The whole of Japan keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Tokyo and in every other city listed below.

Kyoto at a Glance

How Kyoto Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Kyoto. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Kyoto

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Japan

All of these read UTC+9, the same as Kyoto, because Japan keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.