SendaiJapan
Current time in Sendai, Japan
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Japan Standard TimeUTC+09:00
⛶ Full-screen clockSendai time at a glance
- Country
- Japan
- Location
- City in Miyagi
- 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 Sendai
- 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.
Sendai is currently 9 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Sendai
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 15 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Sendai
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 Sendai
Location details for Sendai in Miyagi, Japan.
- Administrative area
- Miyagi, Japan
- Population
- 1,096,704
- Coordinates
- 38.2667° N, 140.8667° E. The elevation is 53 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Sendai
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Sendai. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Natori-shiMiyagi, Japan11 km south
Asia/TokyoSame local time - RifuMiyagi, Japan12 km northeast
Asia/TokyoSame local time - Tagajō-shiMiyagi, Japan12 km east
Asia/TokyoSame local time - TomiyaMiyagi, Japan14 km north
Asia/TokyoSame local time - ShiogamaMiyagi, Japan16 km east
Asia/TokyoSame local time - ShōbudahamaMiyagi, Japan17 km east
Asia/TokyoSame local time
Sources for Sendai 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.