Sandton in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.1040, 28.0540
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1256 km away
What time is it in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
Local time in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa is shown on this page, based on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Sandton, South Africa
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Sandton
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Sandton, Gauteng.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:32 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 6:16 PM Daylight 12 h 44 min Night 11 h 16 min Civil twilight 5:09 AM – 6:40 PM
Weather in Sandton right now
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Sandton and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 2172
- 2196
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Gauteng
- Johannesburg 9 418 183
- Pretoria 2 112 693
- Soweto 1 695 047
- Soshanguve 872 309
- Evaton 725 468
- Benoni 605 344
Same time zone — Africa/Johannesburg
- Johannesburg South Africa
- Cape Town South Africa
- Durban South Africa
- Pretoria South Africa
- Soweto South Africa
- Gqeberha South Africa
Nearby places
- Johannesburg CBD — 10.9 km
- Braamfontein — 11.0 km
- Fairview — 11.0 km
- Johannesburg — 11.0 km
- Vrededorp — 11.1 km
- Newclare — 11.1 km
Time and daylight in Sandton
Local timekeeping in Sandton uses Africa/Johannesburg, equal to UTC+2. Summer clock change: No.
For Sandton today, sunrise is 5:32 AM and sunset is 6:16 PM. Daylight lasts 12 h 44 min.
Sandton and nearby Johannesburg CBD and Fairview are never an hour apart.
Sandton includes 2 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone designation is used for Sandton?
- The designation used for Sandton is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does the local schedule in Sandton include a clock change?
- No.
- What time is last light in Sandton?
- The sun sets at 6:16 PM.