AmamiJapan
Amami time at a glance
- Country
- Japan
- Location
- City in Kagoshima
- Time zone
Asia/Tokyo- UTC offset now
UTC+09:00- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Amami
- IANA zone
Asia/Tokyo- UTC offset now
- UTC+09:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+9
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Amami is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Amami
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 21 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Amami
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Tokyo, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Amami
Location details for Amami in Kagoshima, Japan.
- Administrative area
- Kagoshima, Japan
- Population
- 41,390
- Coordinates
- 28.3769° N, 129.4938° E. The elevation is 21 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Amami
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Amami. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- NazeKagoshima, Japan1.5 km southwest
Asia/TokyoSame local time - NishinoomoteKagoshima, Japan300 km northeast
Asia/TokyoSame local time - MakurazakiKagoshima, Japan331 km north
Asia/TokyoSame local time - IbusukiKagoshima, Japan337 km north
Asia/TokyoSame local time - MinamikyushuKagoshima, Japan343 km north
Asia/TokyoSame local time - MinamisatsumaKagoshima, Japan344 km north
Asia/TokyoSame local time
Sources for Amami time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.