Indexed entity
Cape Town is the cape-town-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug cape-town, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
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Live local time
Cape Town, South Africa
01:26:11 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Quick answer
It is currently 01:26:11 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Cape Town, South Africa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
12°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
18°C
13°C
Wed
18°C
13°C
Thu
17°C
13°C
41% rain
In 14 days
Youth Day
Tue, Jun 16, 2026
PublicIn 69 days
National Women's Day
Mon, Aug 10, 2026
PublicIn 114 days
Thu, Sep 24, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
South African Rand
1 USD = 16.477 ZAR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
07:43 AM
Sunset
05:45 PM
Day length
10h 1m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Cape Town, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:26 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:26:11 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
SAST
Africa/Johannesburg · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Youth Day
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cape Town right now
Nearest airport
CPT
Cape Town International Airport · 18 km
Indexed airports
8
Curated airport references available for South Africa
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Cape Town, South Africa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:26 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Cape Town is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
12:26 PM / -1h
Dubai
03:26 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Travel cue
CPT Cape Town, 18 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:43 AM to 05:45 PM, with solar noon around 12:44 PM and total daylight of 10h 2m.
Mapped location
33.93°S, 18.42°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:26 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Cape Town right now.
New York
07:26 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:26 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Cape Town right now.
Singapore
07:26 PM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Cape Town.
CPT · Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town
PLZ · Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
ELS · King Phalo Airport
East London
BFN · Bram Fischer International Airport
Bloemfontein
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Johannesburg for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+02:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Cape Town right now.
Check local interruptions
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: CPT Cape Town, 18 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Johannesburg. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Cape Town has no near-term DST change in view, but Youth Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Cape Town.
Canonical route
/time/south-africa/cape-town/
Catalog identity
cape-town-ZA · ZA · Africa
Coordinate cell
33.93°S, 18.42°E · lat -33.926 · lon 18.423 · cell -3393:1842
Population record
4,772,846 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Johannesburg · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Mafeteng, Lesotho · 949 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 6,345 km
Closest airport references
CPT Cape Town 18 km · PLZ Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) 663 km · ELS East London 877 km · BFN Bloemfontein 920 km
Zone peer roster
Johannesburg, South Africa · Durban, South Africa · Pretoria, South Africa
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Cape Town: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Cape Town is the cape-town-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug cape-town, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
33.93°S, 18.42°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -34 and longitude band 18; exact decimal pair -33.92584, 18.42322.
South Africa: official name Republic of South Africa; capital Pretoria; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 63,100,945; area 1,221,037 km²; languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi; currencies ZAR South African rand. This is the country layer behind the Cape Town clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
South Africa: South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini; and it encloses Lesotho. Covering an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres, the country has a population of over 63 million people, making it the sixth-most populated country in Africa. Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is regarded as the judicial capital. The largest and most populous city is Johannesburg, followed by Cape Town and Durban. Source: Wikipedia.
Mafeteng [mafeteng-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 949 km]; Mohale's Hoek [mohale-s-hoek-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 950 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 999 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 1059 km]; Gaborone [gaborone-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 1260 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 1260 km]; Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 1262 km]; Windhoek [windhoek-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 1271 km]
Cape Town is part of this indexed country cluster: Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, pop 9,418,183]; Cape Town [cape-town-ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, pop 4,772,846]; Durban [durban-ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, pop 3,338,026]; Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, pop 2,112,693].
São Paulo 6,345 km; Dubai 7,640 km; Singapore 9,667 km; London 9,671 km; Sydney 11,012 km; New York 12,565 km; Tokyo 14,728 km; Los Angeles 16,051 km
CPT Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town [ZA, 18 km]; PLZ Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) [ZA, 663 km]; ELS King Phalo Airport in East London [ZA, 877 km]; BFN Bram Fischer International Airport in Bloemfontein [ZA, 920 km]; HLA Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 1274 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BFN Bram Fischer International Airport in Bloemfontein [ZA]; CPT Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town [ZA]; DUR King Shaka International Airport in Durban [ZA]; ELS King Phalo Airport in East London [ZA]; HLA Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA]; JNB O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA]; PLZ Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) [ZA]; PTG Polokwane International Airport in Polokwane [ZA].
Cape Town renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:26 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Youth Day on 2026-06-16.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Cape Town.
Cape Town is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained South Africa city pages. The route is /time/south-africa/cape-town/ and the city id is cape-town-ZA.
Cape Town has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Cape Town is pinned at 33.93°S, 18.42°E; Mafeteng (949 km); São Paulo (6,345 km).
Africa/Johannesburg resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside South Africa.
CPT Cape Town International Airport (18 km) · Youth Day (Tuesday, June 16, 2026) · 8 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Cape Town uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
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.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Cape Town is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 18.42°, Cape Town's mean solar noon falls about 46 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cape Town sits at 33.93°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 44 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 16 minutes on the June solstice.
Cape Town sits at 33.93°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 44 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 16 minutes on the June solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 18 (14h 25m)
Shortest day
Jun 21 (9h 53m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
4h 32m
See the full daylight curve for Cape Town at /sun/cape-town/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Cape Town local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Cape Town |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
12
Capital status
National capital of South Africa
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa and the seat of its Parliament, with a population of roughly 4.8 million in the metropolitan area. It is one of the country's three capitals, alongside administrative Pretoria and judicial Bloemfontein. The city observes South Africa Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2) year-round with no daylight saving. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652 as a resupply station on the sea route to Asia, Cape Town is the oldest urban settlement in South Africa and is often called the Mother City. It sits beneath the flat-topped Table Mountain, a national park and one of the New7Wonders of Nature, and overlooks the meeting point of Atlantic currents near the Cape of Good Hope. The city is a major tourism, port, and wine-producing centre on Africa's southwestern tip.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Cape Town's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:26:11 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Cape Town (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:43 AM to 05:45 PM
Day length 10h 2m · Solar noon 12:44 PM
Next country holiday
Youth Day
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Cape Town local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
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Population
4.8M
Coordinates
-33.93, 18.42
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Cape Town, South Africa (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~4.8M.
Coordinates: 33.93°S, 18.42°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3766 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:43 AM and sets around 05:45 PM in Cape Town — about 10h 2m of daylight. South Africa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Mafeteng (949 km from Cape Town) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for South Africa.
Next national holiday: Youth Day, 2026-06-16.
Cape Town is indexed as a Africa city in the ZA country record, using Africa/Johannesburg as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/south-africa/cape-town/.
Location context: 33.93°S, 18.42°E; population 4,772,846; nearest indexed city Mafeteng is about 949 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 6,345 km away.
Country planning context: capital Pretoria; subregion Southern Africa; languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho; currency ZAR (R); area 1,221,037 km²; 8 curated airport references; next holiday Youth Day on 2026-06-16.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Cape Town is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 18.42°, Cape Town's mean solar noon falls about 46 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cape Town sits at 33.93°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 9 hours 44 minutes on the December solstice and about 14 hours 16 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 4.8 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Cape Town: Johannesburg (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Sydney (+8h), Mumbai (+3.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
south-africa
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
SAST
IANA Zone
Africa/Johannesburg
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Cape Town: closest hubs São Paulo (~6,345 km), Dubai (~7,640 km), Singapore (~9,667 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,051 km).
Cape Town sits inside South Africa — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Cape Town: Mafeteng (949 km), Mohale's Hoek (950 km), Maseru (999 km), Maputsoe (1059 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cape Town: Youth Day, National Women's Day, Heritage Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for South Africa.
Closest curated airport references from Cape Town: CPT Cape Town (18 km), PLZ Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) (663 km), ELS East London (877 km).
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
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 12:26 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:26 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:26 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:26 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:26 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:26 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:26 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:26 AM | -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 is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Cape Town does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+02:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Cape Town is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Cape Town, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 13:26 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Cape Town sits at 33.93°S, 18.42°E in South Africa, 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.
Mafeteng is the closest indexed city, roughly 949 km from Cape Town.
Cape Town International Airport (CPT) is the closest curated airport reference, about 18 km from Cape Town.
Youth Day is the next upcoming holiday in South Africa, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
Cape Town uses South African rand (ZAR, symbol R) as the local currency of South Africa.
The longest day of 2026 in Cape Town falls on Dec 18 with about 14h 25m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 21 with 9h 53m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Cape Town local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.