12pm in Medellín is 2am in Tokyo

When it’s 9am in Medellín, it’s 11pm in Tokyo. Tokyo is 14 hours ahead from Medellín, placing Colombia and Japan far enough apart to require deliberate scheduling. The best window for live calls is early morning in Medellín before their business day starts, catching Tokyo still in working hours. Remote teams linking Medellín and Tokyo typically anchor their daily standup to the later city’s morning so both sides avoid extreme hours. BPO and support operations on this route often open shifts in the late afternoon in Medellín to align with business hours in Tokyo. The wide gap means one city is often asleep while the other is fully active, so asynchronous tools carry most of the daily communication load. Neither city observes daylight saving time, so this offset is fixed throughout the year. Keeping a timezone converter bookmarked helps both sides quickly verify the current time in Tokyo before sending a calendar invite.