What is EST in SAST?
South Africa Standard Time is 6 hours ahead
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and South Africa Standard Time is on UTC+2:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in New York
- 10:14 pm
- Time in Johannesburg
- 4:14 am
- Difference
- +6 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
SAST — South Africa Standard Time
4:00 am
Wed, the next day
When the difference changes
Eastern Time and South Africa Standard Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – November 1, 2026South Africa Standard Time is 6 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027South Africa Standard Time is 7 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsSouth Africa Standard Time is 6 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
South Africa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time stays on SAST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
EST to SAST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to South Africa Standard Time. 6 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Johannesburg, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am SAST
- 1:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am SAST
- 2:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am SAST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am SAST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 10:00 am SAST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 11:00 am SAST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 12:00 pm SAST
- 7:00 am EDT
- 1:00 pm SAST
- 8:00 am EDT
- 2:00 pm SAST
- 9:00 am EDT
- 3:00 pm SAST
- 10:00 am EDT
- 4:00 pm SAST
- 11:00 am EDT
- 5:00 pm SAST
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm SAST
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm SAST
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm SAST
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm SAST
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 pm SAST
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 pm SAST
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 am SAST+1 day
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 am SAST+1 day
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 am SAST+1 day
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 am SAST+1 day
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 am SAST+1 day
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 am SAST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm SAST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast