Los Angeles to Tokyo Time Converter
Tokyo is 16–17 hours ahead of Los Angeles, which in practice means it's tomorrow in Tokyo for most of the LA workday. Use the converter below for the exact gap on any date.
Typical time difference
Japan doesn't observe daylight saving time, so Tokyo's offset is fixed at UTC+9 year-round. Los Angeles shifts between UTC-8 (winter) and UTC-7 (summer), so Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of LA in winter and 16 hours ahead in summer.
Realistic meeting windows
This is a genuinely difficult pair to schedule — there's essentially no overlap in standard business hours. The least-bad options are usually: an early morning call in LA (around 6–8am PT), which lands in Tokyo's evening (around 10pm–1am the same or next day, closer to reasonable than the alternative), or a late-evening call in Tokyo that catches LA's late afternoon. Neither side gets a fully comfortable time, so for recurring meetings it's worth rotating which side takes the early or late slot.