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A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Johannesburg.
South Africa · GMT+2
Johannesburg runs on GMT+2. Add 2 hours to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Johannesburg.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
05:01
Sunset
18:44
Johannesburg is located in South Africa and uses the Africa/Johannesburg timezone, currently GMT+2 from UTC. Johannesburg does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 05:01 and sunset at 18:44 local time. The coordinates of Johannesburg are 26.20°S, 28.05°E.
Today Johannesburg gets 13 hours 43 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 11:53, almost exactly when the clock says midday.
Right now Johannesburg shares its GMT+2 offset with Helsinki, Bucharest, Athens, Kyiv, Sofia, Riga. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Johannesburg work Monday to Friday, typically 08:00–17:00 local time. Lunch is usually 13:00–14:00, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on mining, banking, telecoms and retail head offices, which is who you are most likely to be calling. The day starts early and finishes early, and December is treated as the end of the working year.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Heritage Day (24 September), Freedom Day (27 April), Youth Day (16 June) and Christmas and the Day of Goodwill (25–26 December). Expect slow replies during mid-December to mid-January.
| From | Gap | Call at (Johannesburg time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇿🇲 Lusaka | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇧🇮 Bujumbura | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇷🇼 Kigali | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇧🇼 Gaborone | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇬🇧 London | −2h | 11:00–17:00 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −6h | 15:00–17:00 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +6h | 09:00–11:00 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | +2h | 09:00–15:00 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Johannesburg is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone, currently GMT+2.
No. Johannesburg does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT+2.
Johannesburg is currently GMT+2 from UTC (GMT+2).
Right now Johannesburg is 2 hours ahead of London and 6 hours ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Johannesburg is 07:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT+2 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Johannesburg at 05:01 and sets at 18:44 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .
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