Current time in Yokohama, Japan
The current local time in Yokohama is shown below. Yokohama observes JST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Yokohama does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Yokohama?
Yokohama holds a specific place in the history of Japanese timekeeping: as one of the treaty ports opened to foreign trade in 1859, it was among the first points where Western clock conventions reached a country then still using traditional temporal hours that varied in length with the seasons. The single national offset followed in 1888, part of the rapid modernisation of the Meiji era. The city's position just west of Tokyo leaves no practical difference in solar timing between the two.
What are the working hours in Yokohama?
The working day mirrors the capital's at 09:00 to 18:00, and the two labour markets are effectively one, with very large numbers commuting into central Tokyo each morning and back at night. The port sustains shipping, trade, and a cluster of corporate research and headquarters functions that have moved south from the costlier capital. Lunch is brief, around 45 minutes. The national clusters of Golden Week in early May, Obon in mid-August, and the New Year shape the working year, while the port itself runs on its own continuous shift pattern through most of them.
Where is Yokohama?
Yokohama sits on Tokyo Bay immediately south of the capital, the second most populous city in Japan in its own right with around 3.7 million residents. It works as both a major seaport and part of the continuous Greater Tokyo conurbation, the largest metropolitan area in the world by population. The boundary with Tokyo is administrative rather than physical, with commuter rail crossing it without pause, and the two cities' built-up areas long since merged into one.