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What time is it in Shimoseki, Niigata, Japan

The time you see here is the local time in Shimoseki, Niigata, Japan, in the Asia/Tokyo time zone (+9).

Shimoseki, Japan

Tuesday, 3 November 2026

UTC+9 · Asia/Tokyo

Local time in Shimoseki

UTC+9 · no daylight saving time

What the clock shows right now in Shimoseki.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:10 AM Solar noon 11:26 AM Sunset 4:43 PM Daylight 10 h 33 min Night 13 h 27 min Civil twilight 5:43 AM – 5:10 PM

Weather in Shimoseki right now

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Shimoseki and its neighbours

Omi Iwafune-Gun Takada Kajikatani Sekikawa Mura Kuwae Oishi Miyanomae Shimoseki
Shimoseki at 38.0913, 139.5600 with the nearest towns within 5.5 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.

Shimoseki in numbers

Coordinates
38.0913, 139.5600
Population
5 144
Region
Niigata
Country
Japan, Asia
Capital
Tokyo — 267 km away
Same name
1 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Niigata

Other places named Shimoseki

Same time zone — Asia/Tokyo

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Shimoseki

Both Omi and Hashiba are near Shimoseki and keep its time.

The postal system lists 4 codes for Shimoseki.

Standard time in Shimoseki comes from Asia/Tokyo and equals UTC+9. Clocks change for daylight saving: No.

At Shimoseki the sun clears the horizon at 6:10 AM and sinks again at 4:43 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 33 min.

Questions and answers

What time zone value is associated with Shimoseki?
The value associated with Shimoseki is Asia/Tokyo, with an offset of +9.
Does Shimoseki have a daylight saving period?
Daylight saving in Shimoseki: No.
At what hour does the sun rise in Shimoseki?
At 6:10 AM.
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