Indexed entity
Durban is the durban-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug durban, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
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Live local time
Durban, South Africa
01:30:13 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Quick answer
It is currently 01:30:13 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Durban, South Africa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
15°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
24°C
16°C
Wed
25°C
19°C
Thu
26°C
16°C
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
06:43 AM
Sunset
05:03 PM
Day length
10h 20m
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 Durban, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:30 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:30:13 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 Durban right now
Nearest airport
DUR
King Shaka International Airport · 28 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 Durban, South Africa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:30 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Durban 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
12:30 PM / -1h
Dubai
03:30 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Travel cue
DUR Durban, 28 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:43 AM to 05:03 PM, with solar noon around 11:53 AM and total daylight of 10h 20m.
Mapped location
29.86°S, 31.03°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:30 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Durban right now.
New York
07:30 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:30 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:30 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Durban right now.
Singapore
07:30 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 Durban.
DUR · King Shaka International Airport
Durban
BFN · Bram Fischer International Airport
Bloemfontein
ELS · King Phalo Airport
East London
JNB · O.R. Tambo International Airport
Johannesburg
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 Durban right now.
Check local interruptions
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: DUR Durban, 28 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
Durban 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 Durban.
Canonical route
/time/south-africa/durban/
Catalog identity
durban-ZA · ZA · Africa
Coordinate cell
29.86°S, 31.03°E · lat -29.858 · lon 31.029 · cell -2986:3103
Population record
3,338,026 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Africa/Johannesburg · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Maputsoe, Lesotho · 322 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,646 km
Closest airport references
DUR Durban 28 km · BFN Bloemfontein 465 km · ELS East London 466 km · JNB Johannesburg 495 km
Zone peer roster
Johannesburg, South Africa · Cape Town, South Africa · Pretoria, South Africa
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Durban: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Durban is the durban-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug durban, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
29.86°S, 31.03°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -30 and longitude band 31; exact decimal pair -29.85790, 31.02920.
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 Durban 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.
Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 322 km]; Mohale's Hoek [mohale-s-hoek-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 344 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 348 km]; Mafeteng [mafeteng-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 366 km]; Manzini [manzini-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 375 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 377 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 394 km]; Matola [matola-MZ, MZ, Africa/Maputo, 455 km]
Durban 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].
Dubai 6,646 km; São Paulo 7,601 km; Singapore 8,432 km; London 9,547 km; Sydney 10,547 km; New York 13,309 km; Tokyo 13,457 km; Los Angeles 17,090 km
DUR King Shaka International Airport in Durban [ZA, 28 km]; BFN Bram Fischer International Airport in Bloemfontein [ZA, 465 km]; ELS King Phalo Airport in East London [ZA, 466 km]; JNB O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 495 km]; HLA Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 532 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].
Durban renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:30 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 Durban.
Durban is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 4 retained South Africa city pages. The route is /time/south-africa/durban/ and the city id is durban-ZA.
Durban 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.
Durban is pinned at 29.86°S, 31.03°E; Maputsoe (322 km); Dubai (6,646 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.
DUR King Shaka International Airport (28 km) · Youth Day (Tuesday, June 16, 2026) · 8 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Durban 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.
Durban: Durban is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Durban is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Durban sits at 29.86°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
Durban sits at 29.86°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 3.3 million residents in the city proper.
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 17 (14h 4m)
Shortest day
Jun 18 (10h 13m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 51m
See the full daylight curve for Durban at /sun/durban/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Durban local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Durban |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the seat of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, with a metropolitan population of more than 3.3 million. The city observes South Africa Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2) year-round with no daylight saving. Located on the warm Indian Ocean coast with a humid subtropical climate, Durban is home to one of the busiest container ports in Africa and the southern hemisphere, a key gateway for South African trade. The city also has the largest population of people of Indian descent outside India, a legacy of indentured labourers brought to work the sugar plantations from 1860, giving it a distinctive cultural and culinary identity.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Durban's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:30:13 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Durban (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:43 AM to 05:03 PM
Day length 10h 20m · Solar noon 11:53 AM
Next country holiday
Youth Day
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Durban local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
3.3M
Coordinates
-29.86, 31.03
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Durban, South Africa (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~3.3M.
Coordinates: 29.86°S, 31.03°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3314 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:43 AM and sets around 05:03 PM in Durban — about 10h 20m of daylight. South Africa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Maputsoe (322 km from Durban) 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.
Durban 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/durban/.
Location context: 29.86°S, 31.03°E; population 3,338,026; nearest indexed city Maputsoe is about 322 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,646 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.
Durban is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Durban sits at 29.86°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 3.3 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Durban: Johannesburg (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Sydney (+8h), São Paulo (−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 Durban.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Durban: closest hubs Dubai (~6,646 km), São Paulo (~7,601 km), Singapore (~8,432 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~17,090 km).
Durban sits inside South Africa — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Durban: Maputsoe (322 km), Mohale's Hoek (344 km), Maseru (348 km), Mafeteng (366 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Durban: 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 Durban: DUR Durban (28 km), BFN Bloemfontein (465 km), ELS East London (466 km).
King Shaka International AirportDUR
Durban · 28 km from Durban
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 465 km from Durban
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 21m
King Phalo AirportELS
East London · 466 km from Durban
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 21m
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · 495 km from Durban
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 23m
Lanseria International AirportHLA
Johannesburg · 532 km from Durban
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 26m
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 | 12:30 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:30 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:30 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:30 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:30 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:30 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:30 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:30 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Durban is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Durban 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 Durban is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Durban, 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 · 13:30 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Durban sits at 29.86°S, 31.03°E in South Africa, with about 3.3M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Durban is Dubai, about 6,646 km away as the crow flies.
Maputsoe is the closest indexed city, roughly 322 km from Durban.
King Shaka International Airport (DUR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 28 km from Durban.
Youth Day is the next upcoming holiday in South Africa, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
Durban uses South African rand (ZAR, symbol R) as the local currency of South Africa.
The longest day of 2026 in Durban falls on Dec 17 with about 14h 4m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 18 with 10h 13m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Durban 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.