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9–17 in Cape Town vs UTC
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- Day of Reconciliation16 Dec 2026
- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Day of Goodwill26 Dec 2026
- New Year's Day1 Jan 2027
- Human Rights Day21 Mar 2027
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About Cape Town
Home to roughly 4,617,560 residents, Cape Town is a populous capital of commerce in South Africa. The city sits at 25 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Cape Town keeps time on the Africa/Johannesburg IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the southern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (-33.92°).
Visitors will find prices listed in ZAR; phones reach South Africa via the +27 country code. This page exposes Cape Town's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Cape Town
The current local time in Cape Town, South Africa is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Cape Town uses the IANA time zone Africa/Johannesburg, currently UTC+2.
Whether Cape Town observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Johannesburg) is the source of truth.
Cape Town is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Cape Town is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Cape Town are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-33.9249, 18.4241).
South Africa uses the ZAR currency and the +27 international dialing code.
Cape Town sits at -33.9249° S, 18.4241° E, 25 m above sea level, in South Africa.