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Time in South Africa now

10:02:41AM

Saturday, April 27, 2024

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Time zone info for South Africa

UTC +2

South Africa Standard Time (SAST)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

The time in South Africa is 7 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on standard time, and 6 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on daylight saving time.
South Africa has not had daylight saving time since 1944.
The IANA time zone identifier for South Africa is Africa/Johannesburg.

Time difference
from South Africa

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−5 hours	−5 hours
UTC	−2 hours	−2 hours
Lagos	−1 hours	−1 hours
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
Johannesburg	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Cairo	+1 hours
Istanbul	+1 hours
Moscow	+1 hours
Dubai	+2 hours
Mumbai	+3.5 hours
Hong Kong	+6 hours
Shanghai	+6 hours
Singapore	+6 hours
Tokyo	+7 hours
Sydney	+8 hours

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South Africa on the map

Continent: Africa
Area: 1,219,912 km²
Capital: Pretoria
Currency: Rand (ZAR)
Calling code: +27
Internet top level domain: .za
Latitude: -29.00. Longitude: 24.00
Population: 57,780,000

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Annual average temperatures
for South Africa 1901-2021

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from Berkeley Earth.
See showyourstripes.info.