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🇯🇵 Tokyo (UTC+9) · 🇨🇳 Shanghai (UTC+8) · 1 hour difference — Tokyo is ahead
Best Time to Meet
🇯🇵 10:00–17:00 in Tokyo = 🇨🇳 09:00–16:00 in Shanghai7 hours of overlap within standard business hours (09:00–17:00)
24-Hour Schedule
| City | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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| 🇯🇵 Tokyo | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 |
| 🇨🇳 Shanghai | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 |
Quick Reference
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Open Meeting Planner →Tokyo and Shanghai share manufacturing and finance as core industries, which is where the traffic between them comes from. Tokyo runs 1 hour ahead of Shanghai.
The working week is Monday to Friday on both sides: roughly 09:00–18:00 in Tokyo and 09:00–18:00 in Shanghai. Watch for Golden Week (29 April to 5 May) and Obon (around 13–16 August) in Tokyo and Chinese New Year (seven days in January or February) and National Day Golden Week (1–7 October) in Shanghai. Replies slow in Tokyo during Golden Week and the year-end break and in Shanghai during the Chinese New Year fortnight and the October Golden Week.
The comfortable window is 10:00–17:00 Tokyo time, which is 09:00–16:00 in Shanghai — 7 shared office hours, enough that nobody has to stretch. Neither city observes daylight saving, so the gap holds all year.
Tokyo is 1 hour ahead of Shanghai. The gap is the same all year.
10:00–17:00 Tokyo time, which is 09:00–16:00 in Shanghai — the 7-hour stretch when both are inside 09:00–17:00.
No. Neither city observes daylight saving, so the difference never changes.
The ones that most often surprise the other side are Golden Week (29 April to 5 May) and Obon (around 13–16 August) in Tokyo and Chinese New Year (seven days in January or February) and National Day Golden Week (1–7 October) in Shanghai.
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