Johannesburg Time Zone Converter

Time Zone Converter for Johannesburg

Johannesburg, in Gauteng, keeps SAST, UTC+2 in November 2026. South Africa uses South African Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2) all year with no daylight saving time. It is two hours ahead of London in winter and one hour ahead in the British summer.

Facts that change the answer

• Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+2 in November 2026)
• Daylight saving: none; the offset stays the same all year
• Solar noon on 10 November 2026: 11:51 AM local clock time (longitude 28.04°)
• 9:00 AM on Tuesday 10 November 2026 in Johannesburg = 2:00 AM in New York, 7:00 AM in London, 12:30 PM in Mumbai, 4:00 PM in Tokyo
• Same 9:00 AM on 13 July 2027: 3:00 AM New York, 8:00 AM London, 12:30 PM Mumbai, 4:00 PM Tokyo

Worked example for Johannesburg

If both offices work 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Johannesburg and London share 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Johannesburg on 10 November 2026, when Johannesburg is 2 hours ahead of London. On 13 July 2027 Johannesburg is 1 hour ahead of London, so the shared window becomes 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Johannesburg.

On 21 December 2026 the sun rises in Johannesburg at about 5:12 AM and sets at 6:59 PM (13 h 46 min of daylight). On 21 June 2027 it rises at 6:54 AM and sets at 5:23 PM (10 h 29 min). Because Johannesburg lies about 8 minutes west of the meridian its clock is based on, solar noon falls after 12:00 by that much, before the equation of time is added.

Nearby, Cape Town (1,262 km away) shares the same clock; Dar es Salaam (2,461 km away, Tanzania) is on EAT, UTC+3; Kinshasa (2,784 km away, Democratic Republic of the Congo) is on WAT, UTC+1 (straight-line, GeoNames). Coordinates of Johannesburg: -26.20°, 28.04°, elevation 1767 m.

Sources: IANA time zone database · GeoNames. Checked 5 November 2026. For how the maths works, see the Time Zone Converter guide.