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Bhisho, Afrique du Sud
12:08:04 PMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Bhisho
Capital of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Heure locale actuelle
12:08:04 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Fuseau horaire
SAST
Africa/Johannesburg · UTC+02:00
Prochain jour férié
Workers' Day
vendredi 1 mai 2026 · Public
Chevauchement d'horaires maintenant
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Bhisho right now
Aéroport le plus proche
ELS
King Phalo Airport · 41 km
Aéroports indexés
8
Curated airport references available for Afrique du Sud
Snapshot at render time: 12:08:04 PM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Bhisho (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
21°C, Overcast
Feels like 19°C · Humidity 28% · Wind 5 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
06:42 AM to 05:32 PM
Day length 10h 50m · Solar noon 12:07 PM
Next country holiday
Workers' Day
vendredi 1 mai 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Bhisho local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
CAA Supreme Court Final Constitutional Hearing
judicialmardi 5 mai 2026
5 days to go
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower 2026 Peak
spacemercredi 6 mai 2026
6 days to go
Code with Claude San Francisco 2026
keynotemercredi 6 mai 2026
6 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-seculardimanche 10 mai 2026
10 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techmardi 12 mai 2026
12 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvendredi 15 mai 2026
15 days to go
Population
137.3K
Coordinates
-32.85, 27.44
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Aéroports indexés
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
For Afrique du Sud, Bhisho (rank #55 by population in this dataset) reads SAST, UTC+02:00 on the IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg, and the city's roughly 137.3K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Geographically, Bhisho is at 32.85°S, 27.44°E — that places it in the Southern Hemisphere's subtropics, about 3646 km from the equator, with warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 06:42 AM and sets around 05:32 PM in Bhisho — about 10h 50m of daylight. Afrique du Sud stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Qonce (6 km from Bhisho) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for Afrique du Sud.
On 2026-05-01, Workers' Day is the next holiday flag for Bhisho — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
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 Bhisho.
Bhisho, formerly Bisho, is the capital of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Office of the Premier, Provincial Legislature and many other government departments are headquartered in the town. The town, three kilometres from Qonce and 70 kilometres from East London, is also part of Buffalo City.
From Bhisho the nearest of our reference hubs are Dubai (~7,096 km), São Paulo (~7,190 km), Singapore (~8,822 km), while Los Angeles sits about 16,844 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Bhisho sits inside Afrique du Sud — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Qonce (6 km), Ndevana (9 km), Dimbaza (21 km), Stutterheim (31 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Bhisho — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Bhisho: Workers' Day, Youth Day, National Women's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Afrique du Sud.
Closest curated airport references from Bhisho: ELS East London (41 km), PLZ Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) (212 km), BFN Bloemfontein (431 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
King Phalo AirportELS
East London · 41 km from Bhisho
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Chief Dawid Stuurman International AirportPLZ
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) · 212 km from Bhisho
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 431 km from Bhisho
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 18m
King Shaka International AirportDUR
Durban · 501 km from Bhisho
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · 750 km from Bhisho
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 43m
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
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:08 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:08 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:08 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:08 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:08 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:08 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:08 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:08 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
King Phalo AirportELS
East London · 41 km away
Chief Dawid Stuurman International AirportPLZ
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) · 212 km away
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 431 km away
King Shaka International AirportDUR
Durban · 501 km away
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · 750 km away
Qonce
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 6 km away
Ndevana
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 9 km away
Dimbaza
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 21 km away
Stutterheim
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 31 km away
Mdantsane
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 33 km away
East London
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 48 km away
Gonubie
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 55 km away
Alice
Afrique du Sud
Approx. 57 km away
Bhisho est dans le fuseau horaire Africa/Johannesburg (SAST), avec un décalage UTC de +02:00.
Bhisho n'observe pas actuellement l'heure d'été.
Le décalage UTC actuel pour Bhisho est UTC+02:00.
Bhisho sits at 32.85°S, 27.44°E in Afrique du Sud, with about 137.3K residents (rank #55 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Bhisho is Dubai, about 7,096 km away as the crow flies.
Qonce is the closest indexed city, roughly 6 km from Bhisho.
King Phalo Airport (ELS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 41 km from Bhisho.
Workers' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Afrique du Sud, on vendredi 1 mai 2026.
