Johannesburg uses South Africa Standard Time (UTC+02:00) all year.
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Gauteng shares Africa/Johannesburg with Cape Town. The offset matches winter Eastern Europe but not CEST. Johannesburg is two hours ahead of London on GMT and one hour ahead of London on BST.
Johannesburg uses Africa/Johannesburg. The current offset is UTC+02:00. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Johannesburg, South Africa is in Africa/Johannesburg (Africa/Johannesburg). Johannesburg uses South Africa Standard Time (UTC+02:00) all year.
This time zone does not observe daylight saving time
At this moment the offset difference is +00:00 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Johannesburg compared with Cape Town can be converted in the time zone converter using Africa/Johannesburg and Africa/Johannesburg. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.