SAST: South Africa Standard Time
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SAST: South Africa Standard Time
SAST stands for South Africa Standard Time, used in South Africa. It runs UTC+2 all year, with no daylight saving change.
Current SAST time
Local times come from your browser's IANA time zone data.
SAST time compared with UTC
SAST runs UTC+2 all year, with no daylight saving change. When it is 12:00 UTC the clock in SAST reads 14:00.
| UTC | SAST |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 02:00 |
| 03:00 | 05:00 |
| 06:00 | 08:00 |
| 09:00 | 11:00 |
| 12:00 | 14:00 |
| 15:00 | 17:00 |
| 18:00 | 20:00 |
| 21:00 | 23:00 |
When the clocks change in the SAST zone
Clocks in the SAST zone never change. It does not observe daylight saving time, so the offset shown above is the offset all year, every year. There is no spring-forward or fall-back date to remember and no hour to lose.
Cities that keep SAST
These places run on SAST: South Africa Standard Time, the IANA zone behind SAST. Each links to its own live clock.
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Soweto, Gqeberha, Soshanguve, Pietermaritzburg, Evaton, Benoni, Bloemfontein, Thembisa.
Convert SAST to another zone
SAST to PSTSAST to MSTSAST to CSTSAST to ESTSAST to HSTSAST to GMTSAST to UTCSAST to BST
Common questions about SAST
What does SAST stand for?
SAST is South Africa Standard Time, the civil time used in South Africa. On this site it resolves to the IANA time zone SAST: South Africa Standard Time, which is what your operating system and browser use to work out the actual offset on any given date.
What is SAST in UTC?
SAST is UTC+2, and it does not change. The table above converts every UTC hour.