Local time in South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Current local time in South Africa (SAST (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
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Differences are relative to Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial), South Africa, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for South Africa
- Standard label
- SAST (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial))
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
- IANA zones
- Africa/Johannesburg
South Africa uses SAST (UTC+2) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in South Africa.
Sunrise and sunset in Pretoria
At 25.7° south, Pretoria gets 13 h 45 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 10 h 32 min around the June solstice — a difference of 3 h 13 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 05:35 | 12:19 | 19:03 | 13 h 29 min |
| 21 February | 05:57 | 12:22 | 18:46 | 12 h 49 min |
| 21 March | 06:12 | 12:15 | 18:19 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:26 | 12:07 | 17:47 | 11 h 21 min |
| 21 May | 06:42 | 12:05 | 17:28 | 10 h 47 min |
| 21 June | 06:54 | 12:10 | 17:26 | 10 h 32 min |
| 21 July | 06:52 | 12:14 | 17:37 | 10 h 45 min |
| 21 August | 06:32 | 12:11 | 17:51 | 11 h 20 min |
| 21 September | 05:59 | 12:01 | 18:03 | 12 h 04 min |
| 21 October | 05:28 | 11:53 | 18:17 | 12 h 49 min |
| 21 November | 05:10 | 11:54 | 18:38 | 13 h 28 min |
| 21 December | 05:14 | 12:06 | 18:58 | 13 h 45 min |
Calculated for Pretoria (-25.75°, 28.19°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in South Africa
South Africa does not change its clocks: it stays on SAST (UTC+2) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.