The best time to meet between Singapore and Tokyo is 9:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+8 (10:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+9), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 1h (Tokyo is ahead) |
| Singapore 9–5 in Tokyo time | 10:00 AM–6:00 PM GMT+9 |
| Tokyo 9–5 in Singapore time | 8:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+8 |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+8 / 10:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+9 |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM GMT+8 = 10:00 AM GMT+9, 12:30 PM GMT+8 = 1:30 PM GMT+9 |
A 1h time gap separates Singapore (UTC+8) and Tokyo (UTC+9). When you pick up your morning coffee in Singapore, your counterpart in Tokyo is already a few hours into their day. Getting a meeting right means understanding exactly where those working days intersect.
With 7h of shared business hours, there's enough room for one focused daily meeting. The discipline is keeping it exactly that: focused. 1h gaps don't forgive meeting sprawl — a 30-minute standup that runs to 45 minutes starts eating into someone's actual work time. Book it, timebox it, end it on schedule.
Recurring calendar invites for Singapore–Tokyo meetings need a DST audit every year. If one city's clocks change before the other's, there's a window — sometimes three weeks, sometimes five — where the same calendar slot lands an hour earlier or later than intended. Always schedule with explicit timezone labels, not just clock times.
Add the rest of your team above and the planner scales to everyone at once. A three-city team spanning Singapore, Tokyo, and a third timezone often has less overlap than any two-city pair in isolation — surfacing that constraint early prevents scheduling that works on paper but burns people out in practice.
Singapore is UTC+8 and Tokyo is UTC+9, a difference of 1h. This gap is constant year-round.
The best meeting time is during the 7h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM GMT+8.
No. Neither Singapore nor Tokyo observes daylight saving time, so the 1h gap is constant year-round.
Singapore and Tokyo share 7h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).