City comparison · time difference and converter
Vancouver is 16 hours behind Tokyo right now. Tokyo sits in Japan on Tokyo; Vancouver sits in Canada on Vancouver. They are roughly 7,556 km apart (4,695 mi), a flight of about 9h 53m. Tokyo's metro holds around 37.4 million people; Vancouver's around 2.7 million.
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01:00 / 09:00
Tokyo / Vancouver
Partial overlapSlot 2
02:00 / 10:00
Tokyo / Vancouver
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03:00 / 11:00
Tokyo / Vancouver
Partial overlapEach row is one hour in Tokyo. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.
No public holidays in Japan or Canada this month.
Great-circle distance
7,556 km
(4,695 mi)
Approximate flight
9h 53m
850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent
Jet lag
16h
Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed
The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour — say a customer call or a release window — open the converter with both cities already loaded.
Open in converter →The difference between Tokyo and Vancouver is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. Vancouver is 16 hours behind Tokyo on the clock today, but the lived version is that Tokyo is ahead in the calendar, so by the time Vancouver comes online, half of Tokyo's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.
In Tokyo, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts — Marunouchi salarymen are in by 08:30 and out around 19:00, often later. The mood in Vancouver is its own story: Vancouver settles into the evening at the usual hour, with the local commuter pattern setting the pace. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.
Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. Japan either observes DST or holds a fixed offset year-round; Canada either follows its region's DST pattern or stays put all year. When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between Tokyo and Vancouver is one hour off the usual for that stretch — a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.
For travellers, the 9h 53m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 16-hour gap costs about 16 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.