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6:00 am06:00 MDT (UTC-6), Oct 18, 2026 = 9:00 pm21:00 JST (UTC+9), Oct 18, 2026

MDT is 15 hours behind JST.

MDT and JST examples

These examples always use MDT (UTC-6) and JST (UTC+9). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

MDT is 15 hours behind JST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, MDT is 15 hours behind JST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, MST is 16 hours behind JST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in MDT correspond to 12:00 am (next day) to 9:00 am (next day) in JST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in MST correspond to 1:00 am (next day) to 10:00 am (next day) in JST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in MDT correspond to 00:00 (next day) to 09:00 (next day) in JST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in MST correspond to 01:00 (next day) to 10:00 (next day) in JST.

Compare MDT time with JST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Mountain Daylight Time is 15 hours behind Japan Standard Time.
6:00 am06:00 in MDT is 9:00 pm21:00 in JST

MDT to JST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30pm-6:30pm17:30-18:30 in MDT which corresponds to 8:30am-9:30am08:30-09:30 in JST (next day). Their 9am–6pm09:00–18:00 working hours do not overlap; this is a suggested compromise.

6:00 am06:00 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
9:00 pm21:00 Japan Standard Time (JST). Offset UTC +9:00 hours

6:00 am06:00 MDT / 9:00 pm21:00 JST

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Mountain Daylight Time

Offset: MDT is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the MDT time zone is Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, with about 1.512 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Denver, El Paso, Albuquerque, Colorado Springs.

French: HAR - Heure Avancée des Rocheuses

Spanish: MT - Zona Pacífico

Map of the areas on Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
MDT part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on MDT.

Daylight Saving: Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Mountain Standard Time (MST).

123456789101112Start: Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) started on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.

123456789101112End: Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November.

See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

MDT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -06 - basic short
  • -0600 - basic
  • -06:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of six hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Sierra - Military abbreviation for MDT
  • S - short form of 'Sierra'
IANA/Olson: Reflects MDT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Boise
  • America/Cambridge_Bay
  • America/Ciudad_Juarez
  • America/Denver
  • America/Edmonton
  • America/Inuvik
  • America/Shiprock
  • America/Yellowknife
  • Canada/Mountain
  • MST7MDT
  • Navajo
  • US/Mountain
Time zones with the GMT -6 offset:
  • CST - Central Standard Time
  • CT - Central Time
  • MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
  • EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
  • GALT - Galapagos Time
  • S - Sierra Time Zone

Japan Standard Time

Offset: JST is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Japan

Principal Cities: The largest city in the JST time zone is Tokyo in Japan, with about 9.733 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Japan Standard Time (JST) do not change for daylight saving time, so JST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Current time in Japan: Japan time now

JST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +09 - basic short
  • +0900 - basic
  • +09:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of nine hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • India - Military abbreviation for JST
  • I - short form of 'India'
IANA/Olson: Reflects JST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Tokyo
  • Japan
Time zones with the GMT +9 offset:
  • AWDT - Australian Western Daylight Time
  • CHOST - Choibalsan Summer Time
  • I - India Time Zone
  • IRKST - Irkutsk Summer Time
  • JST - Japan Standard Time
  • KST - Korea Standard Time
  • PWT - Palau Time
  • TLT - East Timor Time
  • ULAST - Ulaanbaatar Summer Time
  • WIT - Eastern Indonesian Time
  • YAKT - Yakutsk Time