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9–17 in Johannesburg vs UTC
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- Youth Day16 Jun 2026
- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Nelson Mandela Day18 Jul 2026
- National Women's Day9 Aug 2026
- Public Holiday10 Aug 2026
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About Johannesburg
Home to roughly 5,635,127 residents, Johannesburg is a large regional centre in South Africa. Its terrain rests around 1753 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
For computers and clocks, Johannesburg is anchored to the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the subtropical pattern of the southern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Visitors will find prices listed in ZAR; phones reach South Africa via the +27 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Johannesburg
The current local time in Johannesburg, South Africa is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Johannesburg uses the IANA time zone Africa/Johannesburg, currently UTC+2.
Whether Johannesburg 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.
Johannesburg is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Johannesburg is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Johannesburg are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-26.2041, 28.0473).
South Africa uses the ZAR currency and the +27 international dialing code.
Johannesburg sits at -26.2041° S, 28.0473° E, 1753 m above sea level, in South Africa.