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Sakai, Japon
04:17:11 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Tokyo

Sakai
Designated city in Kansai, Japan
Heure locale actuelle
04:17:11 PM
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
2 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Sakai right now
Aéroport le plus proche
NGO
Chubu Centrair International Airport · 154 km
Aéroports indexés
18
Curated airport references available for Japon
Snapshot at render time: 04:17:11 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Sakai (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 12°C · Humidity 81% · Wind 10 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:04 AM to 06:40 PM
Day length 13h 36m · Solar noon 11:52 AM
Next country holiday
Shōwa Day
mercredi 29 avril 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sakai local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvendredi 15 mai 2026
16 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevendredi 15 mai 2026
16 days to go
WHO Pandemic Agreement — Adoption at 79th WHA
politicallundi 18 mai 2026
19 days to go
Forza Horizon 6
release-gamemardi 19 mai 2026
20 days to go
Google I/O 2026
keynotemardi 19 mai 2026
20 days to go
Code with Claude London 2026
keynotemardi 19 mai 2026
20 days to go
Population
92.2K
Coordinates
36.15, 136.19
Timezone
Asia/Tokyo
Aéroports indexés
18
Capital
Tokyo
Languages
Japanese
Currency
JPY (¥)
Country area
377,930 km²
Read time for Sakai from the Asia/Tokyo zone (JST, UTC+09:00); the city carries roughly 92.2K residents and ranks #319 among curated Japon entries.
Geographically, Sakai is at 36.15°N, 136.19°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes, about 4012 km from the equator, with clear seasonal daylight differences across the year.
Today the sun rises around 05:04 AM and sets around 06:40 PM in Sakai — about 13h 36m of daylight. Japon stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Maruoka (7 km from Sakai) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 18 curated airport pages indexed for Japon.
On 2026-04-29, Shōwa Day is the next holiday flag for Sakai — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
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 Sakai.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 08:17 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 03:17 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 12:17 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 11:17 AM | -5h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 03:17 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 05:17 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 04:17 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Sakai est dans le fuseau horaire Asia/Tokyo (JST), avec un décalage UTC de +09:00.
Sakai n'observe pas actuellement l'heure d'été.
Le décalage UTC actuel pour Sakai est UTC+09:00.
Sakai sits at 36.15°N, 136.19°E in Japon, with about 92.2K residents (rank #319 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sakai is Tokyo, about 316 km away as the crow flies.
Maruoka is the closest indexed city, roughly 7 km from Sakai.
Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO) is the closest curated airport reference, about 154 km from Sakai.
Shōwa Day is the next upcoming holiday in Japon, on mercredi 29 avril 2026.
Sakai is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the medieval era. Sakai is known for its kofun, keyhole-shaped burial mounds dating from the fifth century. The kofun in Sakai include the largest grave in the world by area, Daisen Kofun. Once known for swords, Sakai is now famous for the quality of its cutlery. As of 1 January 2022, the city had an estimated population of 819,965, making it the fourteenth most populous city in Japan.
From Sakai the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~316 km), Singapore (~5,106 km), Dubai (~7,617 km), while São Paulo sits about 18,588 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Sakai sits inside Japon — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Tokyo, languages Japanese, currency JPY (¥).
Maruoka (7 km), Awara (8 km), Mikuni (9 km), Fukui-shi (10 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Sakai — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Sakai: Shōwa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Japon.
Closest curated airport references from Sakai: NGO Tokoname (154 km), ITM Osaka (167 km), UKB Kobe (190 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.
Japan does not use DST, which makes it a strong stability reference in APAC comparisons.
Chubu Centrair International AirportNGO
Tokoname · 154 km from Sakai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 57m
Osaka Itami International AirportITM
Osaka · 167 km from Sakai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
Kobe AirportUKB
Kobe · 190 km from Sakai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 0m
Kansai International AirportKIX
Osaka · 210 km from Sakai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Okayama Momotaro AirportOKJ
Okayama · 262 km from Sakai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
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
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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
2 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now