Indexed entity
Osaka is the osaka-JP record in Japan: country slug japan, city slug osaka, ISO JP, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Tokyo.
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Live local time
Osaka, Japan
07:42:34 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Tokyo
Quick answer
It is currently 07:42:34 PM (JST, UTC+09:00) in Osaka, Japan — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
27°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
18°C
Wed
26°C
19°C
61% rain
Thu
27°C
20°C
71% rain
In 48 days
海の日 (Marine Day)
Mon, Jul 20, 2026
PublicIn 70 days
山の日 (Mountain Day)
Tue, Aug 11, 2026
PublicIn 111 days
敬老の日 (Respect for the Aged Day)
Mon, Sep 21, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Japanese Yen
1 USD = 159.15 JPY
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
04:45 AM
Sunset
07:06 PM
Day length
14h 21m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Osaka, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
07:42:34 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
JST
Asia/Tokyo · UTC+09:00
Next holiday
Marine Day
Monday, July 20, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Osaka right now
Nearest airport
ITM
Osaka Itami International Airport · 11 km
Indexed airports
18
Curated airport references available for Japan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Osaka, Japan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 19:42 GMT+9
No reference-city overlap right now
Osaka is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+09:00
Zone label
GMT+9
London
11:42 AM / -8h
New York
06:42 AM / -13h
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -16h
Schedule risk
Marine Day on Monday, July 20, 2026
Travel cue
ITM Osaka, 11 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:45 AM to 07:06 PM, with solar noon around 11:56 AM and total daylight of 14h 21m.
Mapped location
34.69°N, 135.50°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:42 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -16h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:42 PM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Osaka.
ITM · Osaka Itami International Airport
Osaka
UKB · Kobe Airport
Kobe
KIX · Kansai International Airport
Osaka
TKS · Tokushima Awaodori Airport / JMSDF Tokushima Air Base
Tokushima
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Tokyo for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+09:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+09:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Osaka right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Marine Day on Monday, July 20, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: ITM Osaka, 11 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Tokyo. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Osaka has no near-term DST change in view, but Marine Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Osaka.
Canonical route
/time/japan/osaka/
Catalog identity
osaka-JP · JP · Asia
Coordinate cell
34.69°N, 135.50°E · lat 34.694 · lon 135.501 · cell 3469:13550
Population record
2,753,862 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Asia/Tokyo · GMT+9 · UTC+09:00
January / July offsets
UTC+09:00 / UTC+09:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Nagoya, Japan · 139 km
Nearest world hub
Tokyo · 393 km
Closest airport references
ITM Osaka 11 km · UKB Kobe 26 km · KIX Osaka 38 km · TKS Tokushima 103 km
Zone peer roster
Tokyo, Japan · Yokohama, Japan · Nagoya, Japan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Osaka: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Osaka is the osaka-JP record in Japan: country slug japan, city slug osaka, ISO JP, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Tokyo.
34.69°N, 135.50°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 34 and longitude band 135; exact decimal pair 34.69379, 135.50107.
Japan: official name Japan; capital Tokyo; region Asia; subregion Eastern Asia; country population 123,210,000; area 377,930 km²; languages Japanese; currencies JPY Japanese yen. This is the country layer behind the Osaka clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Japan: Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alongside 14,121 smaller islands. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, and around 75% of its terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains. With a population of almost 123 million as of 2026, it is the world's 11th most populous country. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city. Source: Wikipedia.
Nagoya [nagoya-JP, JP, Asia/Tokyo, 139 km]; Yokohama [yokohama-JP, JP, Asia/Tokyo, 386 km]; Tokyo [tokyo-JP, JP, Asia/Tokyo, 397 km]; Busan [busan-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 592 km]; Daegu [daegu-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 641 km]; Seoul [seoul-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 829 km]; Incheon [incheon-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 848 km]; Hamhŭng [hamhung-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 912 km]
Osaka is part of this indexed country cluster: Tokyo [tokyo-JP, Asia/Tokyo, pop 9,733,276]; Yokohama [yokohama-JP, Asia/Tokyo, pop 3,777,491]; Osaka [osaka-JP, Asia/Tokyo, pop 2,753,862]; Nagoya [nagoya-JP, Asia/Tokyo, pop 2,332,176].
Tokyo 393 km; Singapore 4,951 km; Dubai 7,602 km; Sydney 7,797 km; Los Angeles 9,190 km; London 9,499 km; New York 11,103 km; São Paulo 18,759 km
ITM Osaka Itami International Airport in Osaka [JP, 11 km]; UKB Kobe Airport in Kobe [JP, 26 km]; KIX Kansai International Airport in Osaka [JP, 38 km]; TKS Tokushima Awaodori Airport / JMSDF Tokushima Air Base in Tokushima [JP, 103 km]; NGO Chubu Centrair International Airport in Tokoname [JP, 120 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CTS New Chitose Airport in Sapporo [JP]; FUK Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka [JP]; HIJ Hiroshima Airport in Hiroshima [JP]; HND Tokyo Haneda International Airport in Tokyo [JP]; HSG Kyushu Saga International Airport in Saga [JP]; ITM Osaka Itami International Airport in Osaka [JP]; KIJ Niigata Airport in Niigata [JP]; KIX Kansai International Airport in Osaka [JP]; KKJ Kitakyushu Airport in Kitakyushu [JP]; KMJ Kumamoto Airport in Kumamoto [JP].
Osaka renders Jun 2, 2026 · 19:42 GMT+9; GMT+9 at UTC+09:00; January UTC+09:00; July UTC+09:00; next holiday Marine Day on 2026-07-20.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Osaka.
Osaka is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 4 retained Japan city pages. The route is /time/japan/osaka/ and the city id is osaka-JP.
Osaka has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Osaka is pinned at 34.69°N, 135.50°E; Nagoya (139 km); Tokyo (393 km).
Asia/Tokyo resolves to stable UTC+09:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Japan.
ITM Osaka Itami International Airport (11 km) · Marine Day (Monday, July 20, 2026) · 18 country airport references · 17 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Osaka uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Osaka: Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With an estimated population of 2,816,247 as of October 1, 2025 and a population density of about 12,505 people per square kilometer, it is the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants.
Japan Standard Time was established in 1888 at UTC+9 and the country has not changed civil time since the brief 1948–1951 DST experiment ended.
Japan Standard Time was established in 1888 at UTC+9 and the country has not changed civil time since the brief 1948–1951 DST experiment ended.
Japan does not observe daylight saving time. The local UTC offset (+09:00) is constant year-round.
Osaka is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:00). 8 hours ahead of London, on the same clock as Tokyo.
Osaka sits at 34.69°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 20 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 40 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (14h 29m)
Shortest day
Dec 16 (9h 50m)
Year-round average
12h 11m
Annual swing
4h 39m
See the full daylight curve for Osaka at /sun/osaka/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Osaka local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Osaka |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 12:30 - 20:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 10:00 - 18:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
17
Osaka is the third-most populous city in Japan, with about 2.75 million residents, and the core of the Keihanshin metropolitan area, which includes Kyoto and Kobe and ranks among the largest urban regions in the world. It observes Japan Standard Time (JST, UTC+9), Japan's sole civil time since 1888, with no daylight saving. Historically a centre of commerce, Osaka was known as the 'nation's kitchen' during the Edo period for its role in the rice trade and is still regarded as Japan's leading mercantile city. It hosts the Osaka Exchange, a major futures and derivatives market, and the headquarters of companies including Panasonic and Sharp. Osaka is famous for its food culture, the historic Osaka Castle, and hosted the 1970 World's Fair as well as Expo 2025.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Osaka's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 07:42:34 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Osaka (UTC+09:00, JST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:45 AM to 07:06 PM
Day length 14h 21m · Solar noon 11:56 AM
Next country holiday
Marine Day
Monday, July 20, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Osaka local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
2.8M
Coordinates
34.69, 135.50
Timezone
Asia/Tokyo
Indexed airports
18
Capital
Tokyo
Languages
Japanese
Currency
JPY (¥)
Country area
377,930 km²
Osaka, Japan (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (JST, UTC+09:00); population ~2.8M.
Coordinates: 34.69°N, 135.50°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3851 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:45 AM and sets around 07:06 PM in Osaka — about 14h 21m of daylight. Japan stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Nagoya (139 km from Osaka) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 18 curated airport pages indexed for Japan.
Next national holiday: Marine Day, 2026-07-20.
Osaka is indexed as a Asia city in the JP country record, using Asia/Tokyo as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/japan/osaka/.
Location context: 34.69°N, 135.50°E; population 2,753,862; nearest indexed city Nagoya is about 139 km away; closest reference hub is Tokyo, about 393 km away.
Country planning context: capital Tokyo; subregion Eastern Asia; languages Japanese; currency JPY (¥); area 377,930 km²; 18 curated airport references; next holiday Marine Day on 2026-07-20.
Japan Standard Time was established in 1888 at UTC+9 and the country has not changed civil time since the brief 1948–1951 DST experiment ended.
Japan does not observe daylight saving time. The local UTC offset (+09:00) is constant year-round.
Osaka is listed in the dataset snapshot as 9 hours ahead of UTC (offset +09:00). 8 hours ahead of London, on the same clock as Tokyo.
Osaka sits at 34.69°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 20 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 40 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.8 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Osaka: Tokyo (same time), San Francisco (−16h), Los Angeles (−16h), New York City (−13h), Mumbai (−3.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
japan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
JST
IANA Zone
Asia/Tokyo
UTC Offset
UTC+09:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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 Osaka.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Osaka: closest hubs Tokyo (~393 km), Singapore (~4,951 km), Dubai (~7,602 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~18,759 km).
Osaka sits inside Japan — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Tokyo, languages Japanese, currency JPY (¥).
Closest indexed cities to Osaka: Nagoya (139 km), Yokohama (386 km), Tokyo (397 km), Busan (592 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Osaka: Marine Day, Mountain Day, Respect for the Aged Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Japan.
Closest curated airport references from Osaka: ITM Osaka (11 km), UKB Kobe (26 km), KIX Osaka (38 km).
Japan pages should call out Golden Week because it is one of the clearest scheduling disruptors in the Japanese calendar.
Osaka Itami International AirportITM
Osaka · 11 km from Osaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Kobe AirportUKB
Kobe · 26 km from Osaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Kansai International AirportKIX
Osaka · 38 km from Osaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Tokushima Awaodori Airport / JMSDF Tokushima Air BaseTKS
Tokushima · 103 km from Osaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 53m
Chubu Centrair International AirportNGO
Tokoname · 120 km from Osaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 54m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:42 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Osaka is in the Asia/Tokyo timezone (JST), with a UTC offset of +09:00.
Osaka does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+09:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Osaka is UTC+09:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Osaka, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 19:42 GMT+9. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Osaka sits at 34.69°N, 135.50°E in Japan, with about 2.8M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Osaka is Tokyo, about 393 km away as the crow flies.
Nagoya is the closest indexed city, roughly 139 km from Osaka.
Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM) is the closest curated airport reference, about 11 km from Osaka.
Marine Day is the next upcoming holiday in Japan, on Monday, July 20, 2026.
Osaka uses Japanese yen (JPY, symbol ¥) as the local currency of Japan.
The longest day of 2026 in Osaka falls on Jun 17 with about 14h 29m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 9h 50m; the year-round average is 12h 11m.
In Osaka local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 22:00-06:00 (next day); London 17:00-01:00 (next day); Frankfurt 16:00-00:00 (next day); Dubai 14:00-22:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.