Best Time to Meet Between Sydney and Tokyo

Time difference between Sydney and Tokyo

A 1h time gap separates Sydney (UTC+10) and Tokyo (UTC+9). When you pick up your morning coffee in Tokyo, your counterpart in Sydney 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.

The less obvious scheduling risk is daylight saving time mismatch. Sydney and Tokyo may not shift their clocks on the same date. A meeting booked as "10 AM SYD" in January might show up as "11 AM SYD" in a colleague's calendar in March if your calendar app doesn't handle DST transitions correctly. Check the DST note on this page before setting up recurring meetings.

Add the rest of your team above and the planner scales to everyone at once. A three-city team spanning Sydney, 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.