Current time in Cape Town, South Africa
10:45:25 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Cape Town is on South Africa Standard Time, UTC+2. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 4.8 million people live in Cape Town, South Africa. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Cape Town International Airport (CPT, 18 km away).
- Time zone
- Africa/Johannesburg
- UTC offset now
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 5:52 AM
- Sunset today
- 7:07 PM
- Daylight
- 13 h 15 min
- Population
- 4,772,846
- Currency
- Rand (ZAR)
- Dialing code
- +27
- Languages (country)
- Zulu, Xhosa
- Airports
- CPT 18 km
Cities near Cape Town
- Johannesburg10:45 AM · ±0 h1,262 km away
- Luanda9:45 AM · −1 h2,840 km away
- Kinshasa9:45 AM · −1 h3,307 km away
- Dar es Salaam11:45 AM · +1 h3,698 km away
- Kigali10:45 AM · ±0 h3,756 km away
- Kampala11:45 AM · +1 h4,084 km away
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