SowetoSouth Africa
Current time in Soweto, South Africa
Saturday, 26 September 2026
South Africa Standard TimeUTC+02:00
⛶ Full-screen clockSoweto time at a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Location
- City in Gauteng
- Time zone
Africa/Johannesburg- UTC offset now
UTC+02:00- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Soweto
- IANA zone
Africa/Johannesburg- UTC offset now
- UTC+02:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Soweto is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Soweto
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Friday, 1 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Soweto
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Johannesburg, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Soweto
Location details for Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa.
- Administrative area
- Gauteng, South Africa
- Population
- 1,695,047
- Coordinates
- 26.2678° S, 27.8585° E. The elevation is 1,632 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Soweto
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Soweto. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- RoodepoortGauteng, South Africa12 km north
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - RandfonteinGauteng, South Africa18 km northwest
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - JohannesburgGauteng, South Africa20 km east
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - WestonariaGauteng, South Africa22 km west
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - KrugersdorpGauteng, South Africa22 km north
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - RandburgGauteng, South Africa24 km northeast
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time
Sources for Soweto time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.