Love Taps / Time zones / Honolulu and Tokyo
Time difference between Honolulu and Tokyo
Tokyo is 19 hours ahead of Honolulu.
Honolulu—
Tokyo—
| Honolulu | United States · Pacific/Honolulu · UTC−10 |
|---|---|
| Tokyo | Japan · Asia/Tokyo · UTC+9 |
| Difference now | Tokyo is 19 hours ahead of Honolulu |
| Distance | 3,858 miles (6,209 km) |
Neither city changes its clocks in the next 12 months, so the difference stays at 19 hours.
Best times to call
Both awake
Hours when it is between 8:00 am and 11:00 pm in both cities:
- 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Honolulu = 8:00 am – 6:00 pm in Tokyo (next day) · 10 hours
Outside working hours on workdays
Hours when both cities are awake and neither is between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm:
- 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Honolulu = 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm in Tokyo (next day) · 1 hour
Good morning and goodnight
- 8:00 am in Honolulu is 3:00 am in Tokyo the next day.
- 10:00 pm in Honolulu is 5:00 pm in Tokyo the next day.
- 8:00 am in Tokyo is 1:00 pm in Honolulu the previous day.
A message sent at one person's bedtime often lands during the other's day. Love Taps has Good morning and Goodnight moods for this: one tap, no reply expected.
Hour by hour
Current offsets. Highlighted rows are hours when both cities are between 8:00 am and 11:00 pm.
| Honolulu | Tokyo | 8 am – 11 pm |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 7:00 pm | Honolulu asleep |
| 1:00 am | 8:00 pm | Honolulu asleep |
| 2:00 am | 9:00 pm | Honolulu asleep |
| 3:00 am | 10:00 pm | Honolulu asleep |
| 4:00 am | 11:00 pm | Both asleep |
| 5:00 am | 12:00 am +1 day | Both asleep |
| 6:00 am | 1:00 am +1 day | Both asleep |
| 7:00 am | 2:00 am +1 day | Both asleep |
| 8:00 am | 3:00 am +1 day | Tokyo asleep |
| 9:00 am | 4:00 am +1 day | Tokyo asleep |
| 10:00 am | 5:00 am +1 day | Tokyo asleep |
| 11:00 am | 6:00 am +1 day | Tokyo asleep |
| 12:00 pm | 7:00 am +1 day | Tokyo asleep |
| 1:00 pm | 8:00 am +1 day | Both awake |
| 2:00 pm | 9:00 am +1 day | Both awake |
| 3:00 pm | 10:00 am +1 day | Both awake |
| 4:00 pm | 11:00 am +1 day | Both awake |
| 5:00 pm | 12:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 6:00 pm | 1:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 7:00 pm | 2:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 8:00 pm | 3:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 9:00 pm | 4:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 10:00 pm | 5:00 pm +1 day | Both awake |
| 11:00 pm | 6:00 pm +1 day | Honolulu asleep |
Other long-distance pairs
- Honolulu and Los Angeles · 3 hours
- Honolulu and New York · 6 hours
- Honolulu and Seattle · 3 hours
- Honolulu and Chicago · 5 hours
- Honolulu and Manila · 18 hours
- New York and Tokyo · 13 hours
- Los Angeles and Tokyo · 16 hours
- Seattle and Tokyo · 16 hours
More: long-distance relationship ideas · holiday countdowns · all time differences
Computed October 9, 2026. Love Taps reference pages.