Indexed entity
Pretoria is the pretoria-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug pretoria, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
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Live local time
Pretoria, South Africa
01:29:47 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Johannesburg
Quick answer
It is currently 01:29:47 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Pretoria, South Africa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
10°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
21°C
11°C
Wed
22°C
11°C
Thu
23°C
11°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
06:46 AM
Sunset
05:23 PM
Day length
10h 37m
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 Pretoria, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:29 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:29:47 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 Pretoria right now
Nearest airport
HLA
Lanseria International Airport · 34 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 Pretoria, South Africa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:29 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Pretoria 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
12:29 PM / -1h
Dubai
03:29 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Travel cue
HLA Johannesburg, 34 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:46 AM to 05:23 PM, with solar noon around 12:05 PM and total daylight of 10h 37m.
Mapped location
25.74°S, 28.19°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:29 PM / -1h
Good live-call window with Pretoria right now.
New York
07:29 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:29 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:29 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Pretoria right now.
Singapore
07:29 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 Pretoria.
HLA · Lanseria International Airport
Johannesburg
JNB · O.R. Tambo 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 Pretoria right now.
Check local interruptions
Youth Day on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: HLA Johannesburg, 34 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
Pretoria 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 Pretoria.
Canonical route
/time/south-africa/pretoria/
Catalog identity
pretoria-ZA · ZA · Africa
Coordinate cell
25.74°S, 28.19°E · lat -25.745 · lon 28.188 · cell -2574:2819
Population record
2,112,693 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Johannesburg · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Johannesburg, South Africa · 53 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,368 km
Closest airport references
HLA Johannesburg 34 km · JNB Johannesburg 44 km · PTG Polokwane 247 km · BFN Bloemfontein 416 km
Zone peer roster
Johannesburg, South Africa · Cape Town, South Africa · Durban, South Africa
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Pretoria: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Pretoria is the pretoria-ZA record in South Africa: country slug south-africa, city slug pretoria, ISO ZA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Johannesburg.
25.74°S, 28.19°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -26 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair -25.74486, 28.18783.
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 Pretoria 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.
Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 53 km]; Gaborone [gaborone-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 259 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 265 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 301 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 311 km]; Manzini [manzini-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 330 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 351 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 403 km]
Pretoria 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 6,368 km; São Paulo 7,457 km; Singapore 8,639 km; London 9,025 km; Sydney 11,067 km; New York 12,822 km; Tokyo 13,499 km; Los Angeles 16,667 km
HLA Lanseria International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 34 km]; JNB O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg [ZA, 44 km]; PTG Polokwane International Airport in Polokwane [ZA, 247 km]; BFN Bram Fischer International Airport in Bloemfontein [ZA, 416 km]; DUR King Shaka International Airport in Durban [ZA, 518 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].
Pretoria renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:29 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 Pretoria.
Pretoria is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 4 retained South Africa city pages. The route is /time/south-africa/pretoria/ and the city id is pretoria-ZA.
Pretoria 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.
Pretoria is pinned at 25.74°S, 28.19°E; Johannesburg (53 km); Dubai (6,368 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.
HLA Lanseria International Airport (34 km) · Youth Day (Tuesday, June 16, 2026) · 8 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Pretoria 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.
Pretoria: Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Pretoria 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 28.19°, Pretoria's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Pretoria sits at 25.74°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 23 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 37 minutes on the June solstice.
Pretoria sits at 25.74°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 23 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 37 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 45m)
Shortest day
Jun 14 (10h 32m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 13m
See the full daylight curve for Pretoria at /sun/pretoria/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Pretoria local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Pretoria |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa and part of the City of Tshwane metropolitan municipality, with a population of roughly 2.1 million. It observes South Africa Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2) year-round, with no daylight saving. Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, hosting the executive branch of government, the Union Buildings (seat of the presidency), and most foreign embassies, while Cape Town holds the legislature and Bloemfontein the judiciary. Located in Gauteng province about 50 kilometres north of Johannesburg, the city is known for its jacaranda-lined streets and is a major centre of government, research, and higher education.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Pretoria's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:29:47 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Pretoria (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:46 AM to 05:23 PM
Day length 10h 37m · Solar noon 12:05 PM
Next country holiday
Youth Day
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Pretoria local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
2.1M
Coordinates
-25.74, 28.19
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Pretoria, South Africa (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~2.1M.
Coordinates: 25.74°S, 28.19°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2858 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:46 AM and sets around 05:23 PM in Pretoria — about 10h 37m of daylight. South Africa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Johannesburg (53 km from Pretoria) 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.
Pretoria 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/pretoria/.
Location context: 25.74°S, 28.19°E; population 2,112,693; nearest indexed city Johannesburg is about 53 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,368 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.
Pretoria 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 28.19°, Pretoria's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Pretoria sits at 25.74°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 23 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 37 minutes on the June solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.1 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Pretoria: Johannesburg (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), São Paulo (−5h), 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 Pretoria.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Pretoria: closest hubs Dubai (~6,368 km), São Paulo (~7,457 km), Singapore (~8,639 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,667 km).
Pretoria sits inside South Africa — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Pretoria, languages Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, currency ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Pretoria: Johannesburg (53 km), Gaborone (259 km), Mogoditshane (265 km), Mbabane (301 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Pretoria: 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 Pretoria: HLA Johannesburg (34 km), JNB Johannesburg (44 km), PTG Polokwane (247 km).
Lanseria International AirportHLA
Johannesburg · 34 km from Pretoria
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · 44 km from Pretoria
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Polokwane International AirportPTG
Polokwane · 247 km from Pretoria
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 4m
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · 416 km from Pretoria
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 17m
King Shaka International AirportDUR
Durban · 518 km from Pretoria
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 25m
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 | 12:29 PM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:29 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:29 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:29 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:29 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:29 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:29 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:29 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Pretoria is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Pretoria 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 Pretoria is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Pretoria, 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 · 13:29 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Pretoria sits at 25.74°S, 28.19°E in South Africa, with about 2.1M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Pretoria is Dubai, about 6,368 km away as the crow flies.
Johannesburg is the closest indexed city, roughly 53 km from Pretoria.
Lanseria International Airport (HLA) is the closest curated airport reference, about 34 km from Pretoria.
Youth Day is the next upcoming holiday in South Africa, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
Pretoria uses South African rand (ZAR, symbol R) as the local currency of South Africa.
The longest day of 2026 in Pretoria falls on Dec 18 with about 13h 45m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 14 with 10h 32m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Pretoria 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.