Time difference between Athens and Johannesburg

Johannesburg is 1 hour behind Athens

Athens, Greece is UTC+2 · Johannesburg, South Africa is UTC+2 — on standard time

The gap is not the same all year

Every converter gives one number for this pair. That number is right for most of the year and wrong for part of it, because Athens goes forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October and Johannesburg does not change its clocks.

Johannesburg stays put all year while Athens moves, so a meeting fixed in Johannesburg's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at Athens's end.

About Athens and Johannesburg

Greece keeps Eastern European Time, an hour ahead of most of the continent, and changes clocks on the same weekend as the rest of the EU. The gap to Central Europe is therefore fixed all year, which is unusual for a cross-border pair.

South Africa is UTC+2 and has not changed its clocks since two wartime years in the 1940s. The whole country keeps one zone, and the gap to the UK is two hours in winter and one in summer.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 7 hours — 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Athens, the same moment as 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Johannesburg.

Athens to Johannesburg, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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