| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −7h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
Pretoria, South Africa runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Pretoria and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Pretoria lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Pretoria and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Pretoria lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Pretoria and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Pretoria lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Johannesburg, Windhoek, Cape Town. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Pretoria.
Pretoria (South Africa) is home to roughly 2.5M people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 18:06. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 26° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
South Africa
Capital
Pretoria 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Coordinates
25.75°S, 28.19°E
Currency
ZAR (R)
Calling Code
+27
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
South Africa splits its capital functions three ways: Pretoria executive, Cape Town legislative, Bloemfontein judicial — a compromise struck in 1910 so no former colony would feel it had lost.
The clock: all three keep UTC+2. Pretoria's jacarandas — around 70,000 of them — turn the city purple for about six weeks each October.
Pretoria lies at 28.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 1.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 7 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:07 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+2 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 45m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 32m. The swing between them is 3h 13m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Pretoria the sun comes up earliest on 1 December at 05:08, while the latest sunset waits until 13 January at 19:03. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Pretoria that civil twilight runs about 23 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Pretoria, South Africa is Africa/Johannesburg with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Pretoria has an estimated population of 2.5M and is located at coordinates 25.75°S, 28.19°E. It is the capital city of South Africa.
Pretoria gets 13h 45m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Pretoria falls at about 12:07 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 1.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One Country, Three Capitals: South Africa splits its capital functions three ways: Pretoria executive, Cape Town legislative, Bloemfontein judicial — a compromise struck in 1910 so no former colony would feel it had lost.