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Live local time
Hirokawa, Japon
06:50:55 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Tokyo
Heure locale actuelle
06:50:55 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Fuseau horaire
JST
Asia/Tokyo · UTC+09:00
Prochain jour férié
Shōwa Day
mercredi 29 avril 2026 · Public
Chevauchement d'horaires maintenant
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Hirokawa right now
Aéroport le plus proche
HSG
Kyushu Saga International Airport · 25 km
Aéroports indexés
18
Curated airport references available for Japon
Snapshot at render time: 06:50:55 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Hirokawa (UTC+09:00, JST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
14°C, Partly cloudy
Feels like 14°C · Humidity 81% · Wind 5 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:31 AM to 06:58 PM
Day length 13h 27m · Solar noon 12:15 PM
Next country holiday
Shōwa Day
mercredi 29 avril 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Hirokawa local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Islamic New Year (Muharram) 2026
festival-islamicmardi 16 juin 2026
49 days to go
Vesak / Buddha Purnima 2026
religiousvendredi 1 mai 2026
3 days to go
Vesak 2026
festival-buddhistvendredi 1 mai 2026
3 days to go
EU Digital Markets Act — First Review Report
regulatorydimanche 3 mai 2026
5 days to go
WB, Kerala, TN, Assam, Puducherry Assembly Election Counting
electionlundi 4 mai 2026
6 days to go
CAA Supreme Court Final Constitutional Hearing
judicialmardi 5 mai 2026
7 days to go
Population
20K
Coordinates
33.24, 130.55
Timezone
Asia/Tokyo
Aéroports indexés
18
Capital
Tokyo
Languages
Japanese
Currency
JPY (¥)
Country area
377,930 km²
Read time for Hirokawa from the Asia/Tokyo zone (JST, UTC+09:00); the city carries roughly 20K residents and ranks #1123 among curated Japon entries.
Hirokawa sits at 33.24°N, 130.55°E; that's the subtropics (Northern Hemisphere, ~3690 km from the equator) and the daylight pattern reflects warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 05:31 AM and sets around 06:58 PM in Hirokawa — about 13h 27m of daylight. Japon stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Chikugo (7 km from Hirokawa) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 18 curated airport pages indexed for Japon.
Next country-wide schedule signal: Shōwa Day on 2026-04-29, useful for handoff and coverage planning around Hirokawa.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
JST
IANA Zone
Asia/Tokyo
UTC Offset
UTC+09:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
London
-8h
New York
-13h
Los Angeles
-16h
Dubai
-5h
Singapore
-1h
Sydney
+1h
São Paulo
-12h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Hirokawa.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 10:50 PM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 05:50 PM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 02:50 PM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 01:50 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 05:50 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 07:50 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 06:50 PM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Hirokawa est dans le fuseau horaire Asia/Tokyo (JST), avec un décalage UTC de +09:00.
Hirokawa n'observe pas actuellement l'heure d'été.
Le décalage UTC actuel pour Hirokawa est UTC+09:00.
Hirokawa sits at 33.24°N, 130.55°E in Japon, with about 20K residents (rank #1123 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Hirokawa is Tokyo, about 877 km away as the crow flies.
Chikugo is the closest indexed city, roughly 7 km from Hirokawa.
Kyushu Saga International Airport (HSG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 25 km from Hirokawa.
Shōwa Day is the next upcoming holiday in Japon, on mercredi 29 avril 2026.
Hirokawa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:Jiro Hirokawa , Japanese engineer Nobutaka Hirokawa , Japanese neuroscientist and cell biologist Taichirō Hirokawa , Japanese voice actor
Reading Hirokawa against the global hubs: Tokyo (~877 km), Singapore (~4,510 km), Dubai (~7,206 km) are the close ones, with São Paulo (~18,903 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.
Hirokawa sits inside Japon — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Tokyo, languages Japanese, currency JPY (¥).
The closest mapped neighbors of Hirokawa are Chikugo (7 km), Kurume (9 km), Yame (9 km), Setakamachi-takayanagi (13 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Hirokawa: Shōwa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Japon.
Closest curated airport references from Hirokawa: HSG Saga (25 km), FUK Fukuoka (39 km), KMJ Kumamoto (53 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Japanese workday pages become more useful when they explain how early US calls and late Europe calls actually fit into the local day.
Kyushu Saga International AirportHSG
Saga · 25 km from Hirokawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Fukuoka AirportFUK
Fukuoka · 39 km from Hirokawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Kumamoto AirportKMJ
Kumamoto · 53 km from Hirokawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Nagasaki AirportNGS
Nagasaki · 70 km from Hirokawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 50m
Kitakyushu AirportKKJ
Kitakyushu · 81 km from Hirokawa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Exchange snapshot
1 JPY = 0.005 EUR · 1 JPY = 0.005 GBP · 1 JPY = 0.006 USD
As of 2026-04-28
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
