Japan Standard Time Zone - JST

Japan Standard Time is nine hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time standard, written as an offset of UTC + 9:00. That means to find the standard time in the zone you must add nine hours to Coordinated Universal Time.

Territories observing the time zone are primarily in Asia. It runs through the country of Japan.

Japan remains on Japan Standard Time all year long and they do not make any changes for Daylight Saving.

Locations in Japan Standard Time Zone

The following areas are included in the time zone:

• Asia

  • Japan