Current time in Bethal
Current time
Africa/Johannesburg · SAST (UTC+02:00)
Neighbouring days
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Sunrise and sunset
- Sunrise
- 05:52
- Sunset
- 17:57
- Solar noon
- 11:55
- Daylight
- 12 h 5 min
- Night
- 11 h 55 min
The local date has changed — reload the page for the new sunrise and sunset.
Today and the next four days
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:52 | 17:57 | 12 h 5 min | ||
| 05:51 | 17:58 | 12 h 7 min | +1 min 32 s | |
| 05:50 | 17:58 | 12 h 8 min | +1 min 34 s | |
| 05:49 | 17:59 | 12 h 10 min | +1 min 32 s | |
| 05:48 | 17:59 | 12 h 11 min | +1 min 34 s |
Twilight
| Kind | Begins (morning) | Ends (evening) |
|---|---|---|
| Civil twilight (daylight begins / ends) | 05:29 | 18:20 |
| Nautical twilight | 05:02 | 18:47 |
| Astronomical twilight | 04:35 | 19:14 |
Civil twilight is the period when the sun is within 6 degrees below the horizon — bright enough to see outdoors without lights, and what people usually mean by “it gets light” and “it gets dark”. Nautical uses 12 degrees and astronomical 18 degrees. At high latitudes a band can be absent for a whole day, in which case the row is left blank.
Longest and shortest days in 2026
- Longest day
- 13 h 48 min (21 December 2026)
- Shortest day
- 10 h 29 min (21 June 2026)
Computed from the coordinates of Bethal: -26.45794, 29.46553.
Sunrise and sunset are the moments when the centre of the sun is 50 arcminutes below the horizon, which accounts for atmospheric refraction and the sun’s apparent radius — the same convention as common astronomical almanacs. Daylight is sunset minus sunrise; night is taken as 24 hours minus daylight. Elevation, terrain and local weather are not included, so observed times can differ by a minute or two.
Zone details
| Country / region | South Africa |
|---|---|
| Administrative division | Mpumalanga |
| IANA time zone | Africa/Johannesburg |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
| Zone abbreviation | SAST |
| Population | 60,779 |
| Latitude / longitude | -26.4579400, 29.4655300 |
Daylight saving
Bethal does not observe daylight saving and stays on UTC+02:00 all year.
This moment in other formats
| Unix timestamp | 1789943302 |
|---|---|
| ISO 8601 | 2026-09-21T00:28:22+02:00 |
| ISO week | 2026-W39 |
| Day of the year | day 264 of 365 |
| Days left this year | 101 days |
These values update with the clock above and use the local date in Bethal.
Difference from a reference city
Bethal is 1 hours ahead of London.
already the next day
Working-hours overlap with London
About 8 h of overlap each day.
- Bethal 10:00–18:00 matches London 09:00–17:00
Working hours are taken as 09:00–18:00 local on each side, using the offsets for today.
Hour-by-hour conversion
Calculated for 2026-09-21 local time in Bethal. The two places start and end daylight saving on different dates, so another day can give a different result.
| Bethal (source) | London (target) |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 23:00 prev day |
| 01:00 | 00:00 |
| 02:00 | 01:00 |
| 03:00 | 02:00 |
| 04:00 | 03:00 |
| 05:00 | 04:00 |
| 06:00 | 05:00 |
| 07:00 | 06:00 |
| 08:00 | 07:00 |
| 09:00 | 08:00 |
| 10:00 | 09:00 |
| 11:00 | 10:00 |
| 12:00 | 11:00 |
| 13:00 | 12:00 |
| 14:00 | 13:00 |
| 15:00 | 14:00 |
| 16:00 | 15:00 |
| 17:00 | 16:00 |
| 18:00 | 17:00 |
| 19:00 | 18:00 |
| 20:00 | 19:00 |
| 21:00 | 20:00 |
| 22:00 | 21:00 |
| 23:00 | 22:00 |
Other cities in South Africa
- Pretoria 00:28
- Johannesburg 00:28
- Cape Town 00:28
- Durban 00:28
- Soweto 00:28
- Port Elizabeth 00:28
- Pietermaritzburg 00:28
- Benoni 00:28
- Bloemfontein 00:28
- Tembisa 00:28
- East London 00:28
- Vereeniging 00:28
Cities also on Africa/Johannesburg
- Johannesburg 00:28
- Cape Town 00:28
- Durban 00:28
- Soweto 00:28
- Pretoria 00:28
- Port Elizabeth 00:28
- Pietermaritzburg 00:28
- Benoni 00:28
How to use this page
The top of the page shows the current date and time in Bethal, ticking in the Africa/Johannesburg zone. To convert a specific moment to another city, use the comparison link below, where you can enter a date and time.
How the time is calculated
Bethal is bound to the IANA identifier Africa/Johannesburg. The server resolves the UTC offset and daylight saving state for the requested moment and renders the first view; the browser then keeps time in the same zone and re-syncs when the tab comes back to the foreground. No fixed offset stands in for the zone, and no zone is guessed from the city name.
FAQ
- Which time zone is Bethal in?
- Bethal uses the IANA identifier Africa/Johannesburg, currently UTC+02:00. The same identifier can have different offsets on different dates; the value above is for the current moment.
- Does Bethal observe daylight saving time?
- The daylight saving section above answers this from the IANA database: cities that do not observe it show no changeover text, and cities that do show the current state and the next local changeover time.
- What time are sunrise and sunset in Bethal today?
- The sunrise and sunset section above gives today’s sunrise, sunset and solar noon along with the length of daylight and night, plus how they change over the next four days. Times are computed from the coordinates of Bethal in the Africa/Johannesburg zone; at high latitudes sunrise or sunset can fall on the adjacent date, which the page marks explicitly.
- How many hours is Bethal from London?
- Calculated for the current moment: Bethal is 1 hours ahead of London. The section above also shows each side’s local date at that same instant. Because the two places start and end daylight saving on different dates, the gap changes during the year — use the fixed-date mode in the comparison tool for another date.
- Can a cached page show the wrong time?
- No. The first render uses server time as a starting value, and as soon as the page loads the browser recomputes the current moment for Africa/Johannesburg and takes over the clock, so a cache hit still shows the time at which you opened it.