Love Taps / Time zones / Tokyo and Seoul
Time difference between Tokyo and Seoul
Seoul and Tokyo are on the same time.
Tokyo—
Seoul—
| Tokyo | Japan · Asia/Tokyo · UTC+9 |
|---|---|
| Seoul | South Korea · Asia/Seoul · UTC+9 |
| Difference now | Seoul and Tokyo are on the same time |
| Distance | 714 miles (1,149 km) |
Neither city changes its clocks in the next 12 months, so the difference stays at 0 hours.
Best times to call
Both awake
Hours when it is between 8:00 am and 11:00 pm in both cities:
- 8:00 am – 11:00 pm in Tokyo = 8:00 am – 11:00 pm in Seoul · 15 hours
Outside working hours on workdays
Hours when both cities are awake and neither is between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm:
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am in Tokyo = 8:00 am – 9:00 am in Seoul · 1 hour
- 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Tokyo = 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Seoul · 6 hours
Good morning and goodnight
- 8:00 am in Tokyo is 8:00 am in Seoul.
- 10:00 pm in Tokyo is 10:00 pm in Seoul.
- 8:00 am in Seoul is 8:00 am in Tokyo.
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.
| Tokyo | Seoul | 8 am – 11 pm |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 12:00 am | Both asleep |
| 1:00 am | 1:00 am | Both asleep |
| 2:00 am | 2:00 am | Both asleep |
| 3:00 am | 3:00 am | Both asleep |
| 4:00 am | 4:00 am | Both asleep |
| 5:00 am | 5:00 am | Both asleep |
| 6:00 am | 6:00 am | Both asleep |
| 7:00 am | 7:00 am | Both asleep |
| 8:00 am | 8:00 am | Both awake |
| 9:00 am | 9:00 am | Both awake |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 am | Both awake |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 am | Both awake |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 pm | Both awake |
| 1:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Both awake |
| 2:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Both awake |
| 3:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Both awake |
| 4:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Both awake |
| 5:00 pm | 5:00 pm | Both awake |
| 6:00 pm | 6:00 pm | Both awake |
| 7:00 pm | 7:00 pm | Both awake |
| 8:00 pm | 8:00 pm | Both awake |
| 9:00 pm | 9:00 pm | Both awake |
| 10:00 pm | 10:00 pm | Both awake |
| 11:00 pm | 11:00 pm | Both asleep |
Other long-distance pairs
- New York and Tokyo · 13 hours
- Los Angeles and Tokyo · 16 hours
- Seattle and Tokyo · 16 hours
- Honolulu and Tokyo · 19 hours
- Berlin and Tokyo · 7 hours
- Paris and Tokyo · 7 hours
- Sydney and Tokyo · 2 hours
- Tokyo and Manila · 1 hour
More: long-distance relationship ideas · holiday countdowns · all time differences
Computed October 9, 2026. Love Taps reference pages.