Indexed entity
Johannesburg is the johannesburg-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug johannesburg, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
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Live local time
Johannesburg, South Africa
01:25:45 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Quick answer
It is currently 01:25:45 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Johannesburg, South Africa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
9°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
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Wed
19°C
8°C
Thu
20°C
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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
06:48 AM
Sunset
05:23 PM
Day length
10h 35m
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 Johannesburg, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:25 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:25:45 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 Johannesburg right now
Nearest airport
JNB
O.R. Tambo International Airport · 21 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 Johannesburg, South Africa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:25 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Johannesburg 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
12:25 PM / -1h
Dubai
03:25 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Travel cue
JNB Johannesburg, 21 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:48 AM to 05:23 PM, with solar noon around 12:06 PM and total daylight of 10h 35m.
Mapped location
26.20°S, 28.04°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:25 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Johannesburg right now.
New York
07:25 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:25 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:25 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Johannesburg right now.
Singapore
07:25 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 Johannesburg.
JNB · O.R. Tambo International Airport
Johannesburg
HLA · Lanseria International Airport
Johannesburg
PTG · Polokwane International Airport
Polokwane
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 Johannesburg right now.
Check local interruptions
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: JNB Johannesburg, 21 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
Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg.
Canonical route
/time/south-africa/johannesburg/
Catalog identity
johannesburg-ZA · ZA · Africa
Coordinate cell
26.20°S, 28.04°E · lat -26.202 · lon 28.044 · cell -2620:2804
Population record
9,418,183 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Johannesburg · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Pretoria, South Africa · 53 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,420 km
Closest airport references
JNB Johannesburg 21 km · HLA Johannesburg 32 km · PTG Polokwane 298 km · BFN Bloemfontein 364 km
Zone peer roster
Cape Town, South Africa · Durban, South Africa · Pretoria, South Africa
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Johannesburg: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Johannesburg is the johannesburg-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug johannesburg, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
26.20°S, 28.04°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -27 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair -26.20227, 28.04363.
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 Johannesburg 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.
Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 53 km]; Gaborone [gaborone-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 275 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 280 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 299 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 308 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 316 km]; Manzini [manzini-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 334 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 351 km]
Johannesburg 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 6,420 km; São Paulo 7,429 km; Singapore 8,660 km; London 9,069 km; Sydney 11,041 km; New York 12,839 km; Tokyo 13,536 km; Los Angeles 16,674 km
JNB O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 21 km]; HLA Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 32 km]; PTG Polokwane International Airport in Polokwane [ZA, 298 km]; BFN Bram Fischer International Airport in Bloemfontein [ZA, 364 km]; DUR King Shaka International Airport in Durban [ZA, 485 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].
Johannesburg renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:25 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 Johannesburg.
Johannesburg is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained South Africa city pages. The route is /time/south-africa/johannesburg/ and the city id is johannesburg-ZA.
Johannesburg 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.
Johannesburg is pinned at 26.20°S, 28.04°E; Pretoria (53 km); Dubai (6,420 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.
JNB O.R. Tambo International Airport (21 km) · Youth Day (Tuesday, June 16, 2026) · 8 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Johannesburg 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.
Johannesburg: Johannesburg, colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg or "The City of Gold", is the most populous city in South Africa. The City of Johannesburg itself has a population of 5,538,596, while the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality has a population of 6,599,190, making it one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and seat of the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court. Situated on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand hills, the city has long been at the epicentre of the international mineral and gold trade. The richest city in Africa by GDP and private wealth, Johannesburg functions as the economic capital of South Africa and is home to the continent's largest stock exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Johannesburg 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 28.04°, Johannesburg's mean solar noon falls about 8 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.
Johannesburg sits at 26.20°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 minutes on the June solstice.
Johannesburg sits at 26.20°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 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 (13h 47m)
Shortest day
Jun 14 (10h 30m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 17m
See the full daylight curve for Johannesburg at /sun/johannesburg/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Johannesburg local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Johannesburg |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and the capital of Gauteng province, with about 5.6 million residents in the city proper and roughly 10 million in the wider metropolitan area. South Africa Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2) is fixed year-round with no daylight saving. South Africa has three national capitals (Pretoria for executive, Cape Town for legislative, Bloemfontein for judicial), but Johannesburg is the economic engine — the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), founded in 1887 on the back of the Witwatersrand gold rush, is by some distance the largest stock exchange in Africa. The city sits at about 1,750 metres elevation and was founded in 1886 after the discovery of gold; the underground mines beneath Johannesburg are among the deepest in the world. Soweto, on the south-western edge of the city, is the historic centre of anti-apartheid resistance.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Johannesburg's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:25:45 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Johannesburg (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:48 AM to 05:23 PM
Day length 10h 35m · Solar noon 12:06 PM
Next country holiday
Youth Day
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Johannesburg local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
9.4M
Coordinates
-26.20, 28.04
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Johannesburg, South Africa (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~9.4M.
Coordinates: 26.20°S, 28.04°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2908 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:48 AM and sets around 05:23 PM in Johannesburg — about 10h 35m of daylight. South Africa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Pretoria (53 km from Johannesburg) 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.
Johannesburg 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/johannesburg/.
Location context: 26.20°S, 28.04°E; population 9,418,183; nearest indexed city Pretoria is about 53 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,420 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.
Johannesburg 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 28.04°, Johannesburg's mean solar noon falls about 8 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.
Johannesburg sits at 26.20°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 9.4 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Johannesburg: Cape Town (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), São Paulo (−5h), Sydney (+8h).
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
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 Johannesburg.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Johannesburg: closest hubs Dubai (~6,420 km), São Paulo (~7,429 km), Singapore (~8,660 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,674 km).
Johannesburg sits inside South Africa — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Johannesburg: Pretoria (53 km), Gaborone (275 km), Mogoditshane (280 km), Maputsoe (299 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Johannesburg: 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 Johannesburg: JNB Johannesburg (21 km), HLA Johannesburg (32 km), PTG Polokwane (298 km).
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · 21 km from Johannesburg
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Lanseria International AirportHLA
Johannesburg · 32 km from Johannesburg
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Polokwane International AirportPTG
Polokwane · 298 km from Johannesburg
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 8m
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 364 km from Johannesburg
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 13m
King Shaka International AirportDUR
Durban · 485 km from Johannesburg
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 22m
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 | 12:25 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:25 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:25 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:25 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:25 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:25 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:25 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:25 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Johannesburg is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Johannesburg, 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 · 13:25 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Johannesburg sits at 26.20°S, 28.04°E in South Africa, with about 9.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Johannesburg is Dubai, about 6,420 km away as the crow flies.
Pretoria is the closest indexed city, roughly 53 km from Johannesburg.
O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB) is the closest curated airport reference, about 21 km from Johannesburg.
Youth Day is the next upcoming holiday in South Africa, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
Johannesburg uses South African rand (ZAR, symbol R) as the local currency of South Africa.
The longest day of 2026 in Johannesburg falls on Dec 18 with about 13h 47m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 14 with 10h 30m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Johannesburg 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.