Time difference between Johannesburg and Athens

Athens is 1 hour ahead of Johannesburg

Johannesburg, South Africa is UTC+2 · Athens, Greece 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 Johannesburg does not change its clocks and Athens goes forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October.

Johannesburg stays put all year while Athens moves, so the gap changes twice a year from Athens's side alone. A recurring meeting set in Johannesburg's calendar will drift by an hour without anyone touching it.

About Johannesburg and Athens

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.

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.

When they can both be at their desks

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

Johannesburg to Athens, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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