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.
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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.