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Cape Town, Südafrika
04:14:05 AMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Cape Town
Legislative capital of South Africa
Aktuelle Ortszeit
04:14:05 AM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Zeitzone
SAST
Africa/Johannesburg · UTC+02:00
Nächster Feiertag
Workers' Day
Freitag, 1. Mai 2026 · Public
Geschäftsüberschneidung jetzt
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cape Town right now
Nächster Flughafen
CPT
Cape Town International Airport · 18 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
8
Curated airport references available for Südafrika
Snapshot at render time: 04:14:05 AM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Cape Town (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
13°C, Clear sky
Feels like 12°C · Humidity 91% · Wind 13 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
07:20 AM to 06:06 PM
Day length 10h 46m · Solar noon 12:43 PM
Next country holiday
Workers' Day
Freitag, 1. Mai 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Cape Town local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
4.8M
Coordinates
-33.93, 18.42
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Indexierte Flughäfen
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Read time for Cape Town from the Africa/Johannesburg zone (SAST, UTC+02:00); the city carries roughly 4.8M residents and ranks #2 among curated Südafrika entries.
The coordinates 33.93°S, 18.42°E put Cape Town roughly 3766 km from the equator in the subtropics of the Southern Hemisphere, which is why the page expects warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 07:20 AM and sets around 06:06 PM in Cape Town — about 10h 46m of daylight. Südafrika stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Rondebosch (6 km from Cape Town) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for Südafrika.
Cape Town planners should mark 2026-05-01 (Workers' Day); that's the next national holiday signal in view.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Timezone
SAST
IANA Zone
Africa/Johannesburg
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+02:00
Burundi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Other cities in this timezone
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Cape Town.
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's second-largest city by population, after Johannesburg, and the largest city in the Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
Distance-wise, Cape Town is closest to São Paulo (~6,345 km), Dubai (~7,640 km), Singapore (~9,667 km); Los Angeles is the far end at roughly 16,051 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.
Cape Town sits inside Südafrika — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Around Cape Town, the nearest mapped reference cities are Rondebosch (6 km), Athlone (9 km), Lansdowne (10 km), Retreat (15 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for SAST planning.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cape Town: Workers' Day, Youth Day, National Women's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Südafrika.
Closest curated airport references from Cape Town: CPT Cape Town (18 km), PLZ Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) (663 km), ELS East London (877 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
Cape Town International AirportCPT
Cape Town · 18 km from Cape Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Chief Dawid Stuurman International AirportPLZ
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) · 663 km from Cape Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 36m
King Phalo AirportELS
East London · 877 km from Cape Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 52m
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 920 km from Cape Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 56m
Lanseria International AirportHLA
Johannesburg · 1274 km from Cape Town
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 23m
Exchange snapshot
1 ZAR = 0.051 EUR · 1 ZAR = 0.045 GBP · 1 ZAR = 0.060 USD
As of 2026-04-29
On this day
2021: Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
2014: A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2013: Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 03:14 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 10:14 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 07:14 PM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 06:14 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 10:14 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 11:14 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 12:14 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 11:14 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Cape Town International AirportCPT
Cape Town · 18 km away
Chief Dawid Stuurman International AirportPLZ
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) · 663 km away
King Phalo AirportELS
East London · 877 km away
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 920 km away
Lanseria International AirportHLA
Johannesburg · 1274 km away
Cape Town liegt in der Zeitzone Africa/Johannesburg (SAST), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +02:00.
Cape Town beachtet derzeit nicht die Sommerzeit.
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Cape Town ist UTC+02:00.
Cape Town sits at 33.93°S, 18.42°E in Südafrika, with about 4.8M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Cape Town is São Paulo, about 6,345 km away as the crow flies.
Rondebosch is the closest indexed city, roughly 6 km from Cape Town.
Cape Town International Airport (CPT) is the closest curated airport reference, about 18 km from Cape Town.
Workers' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Südafrika, on Freitag, 1. Mai 2026.
