Convert SAST to UTC
UTC is 2 hours behind SAST. SAST is UTC+2 and UTC is UTC+0.
Right now: SAST · UTC
Best time to schedule a meeting
Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 6 hours: 11:00 AM–5:00 PM SAST (9:00 AM–3:00 PM UTC). Schedule meetings inside that window.
| SAST | UTC | Suitable? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 7:00 AM | outside 9–5 |
| 10:00 AM | 8:00 AM | outside 9–5 |
| 11:00 AM | 9:00 AM | working hours |
| 12:00 PM | 10:00 AM | working hours |
| 1:00 PM | 11:00 AM | working hours |
| 2:00 PM | 12:00 PM | working hours |
| 3:00 PM | 1:00 PM | working hours |
| 4:00 PM | 2:00 PM | working hours |
| 5:00 PM | 3:00 PM | working hours |
SAST to UTC conversion table
| SAST | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 10:00 PM (previous day) |
| 1:00 AM | 11:00 PM (previous day) |
| 2:00 AM | 12:00 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 1:00 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 2:00 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 3:00 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 4:00 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 5:00 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 6:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 7:00 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 9:00 AM |
| 12:00 PM | 10:00 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 11:00 AM |
| 2:00 PM | 12:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 1:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
About SAST
South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.
South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.
About UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is UTC+0. It is used in the global time standard, used by aviation, computing and science.
UTC is not a time zone. It is the reference all the others are defined against, and no country runs its civil clocks on it — the places at UTC+0 are on GMT or WET, which are separate things that happen to agree in winter. It never changes for daylight saving, which is exactly why servers, aviation, and every log file you will ever read are timestamped in it. The one irregularity is the leap second, inserted to keep UTC within a second of the Earth's rotation; the practice is due to be abandoned by 2035.
Does this gap change with the seasons?
Neither SAST nor UTC shifts with the seasons, so this 2-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.
This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.
Frequently asked questions
What time is 9:00 AM SAST in UTC?
9:00 AM SAST is 7:00 AM UTC.
Is UTC ahead of SAST?
UTC is 2 hours behind SAST.
Which time zone does this use?
SAST is UTC+2 and UTC is UTC+0. Both abbreviations denote a single fixed offset, so this conversion never shifts with daylight saving — what changes is which abbreviation a place is using at the time.