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Current Time in Cape Town
Live local time, date, time zone and today's sun times for Cape Town, South Africa.
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About time in Cape Town
Cape Town is located in South Africa and observes the Africa/Johannesburg time zone. The clock above ticks live and stays accurate through any Daylight Saving Time change, because it reads Cape Town's current UTC offset directly from your device's IANA time-zone database — so it is always right, whatever the season.
Use this page to check what time it is in Cape Town right now, to plan a phone or video call, or to schedule a meeting across regions. To translate a specific date and time between Cape Town and anywhere else in the world, open the time zone converter, or build your own multi-city dashboard with the world clock.