What is SAST in AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
Convert a time
AEDT — Australian Eastern Time
9:00 pm
AEDT, Fri
- Time in Johannesburg
- 12:00:58 PM
- Time in Sydney
- 9:00:58 PM
- Difference
- +9 h
- Next clock change
- April 4, 2027
When the difference changes
South Africa Standard Time and Australian Eastern 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 – April 3, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 8 hours ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
South Africa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time stays on SAST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour — 3:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time, and the zone is on AEST after that.
SAST to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, November 13, 2026, converted from South Africa Standard Time to Australian Eastern Time. 9 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Sydney, which is marked.
- 12:00 am SAST
- 9:00 am AEDT
- 1:00 am SAST
- 10:00 am AEDT
- 2:00 am SAST
- 11:00 am AEDT
- 3:00 am SAST
- 12:00 pm AEDT
- 4:00 am SAST
- 1:00 pm AEDT
- 5:00 am SAST
- 2:00 pm AEDT
- 6:00 am SAST
- 3:00 pm AEDT
- 7:00 am SAST
- 4:00 pm AEDT
- 8:00 am SAST
- 5:00 pm AEDT
- 9:00 am SAST
- 6:00 pm AEDT
- 10:00 am SAST
- 7:00 pm AEDT
- 11:00 am SAST
- 8:00 pm AEDT
- 12:00 pm SAST
- 9:00 pm AEDT
- 1:00 pm SAST
- 10:00 pm AEDT
- 2:00 pm SAST
- 11:00 pm AEDT
- 3:00 pm SAST
- 12:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 4:00 pm SAST
- 1:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 5:00 pm SAST
- 2:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 6:00 pm SAST
- 3:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 7:00 pm SAST
- 4:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 8:00 pm SAST
- 5:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 9:00 pm SAST
- 6:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 10:00 pm SAST
- 7:00 am AEDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm SAST
- 8:00 am AEDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Johannesburg and one in Sydney — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Johannesburg is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in Sydney.
Australian Eastern Time (AEDT) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.
Other conversions
- AEST to SAST
- SAST to UTC
- SAST to GMT
- SAST to EST
- SAST to CST
- SAST to MST
- SAST to PST
- SAST to AKST
- SAST to HST
- SAST to BST
- SAST to CET
- SAST to IST
- SAST to CST (China)
- SAST to JST
- SAST to AST
- SAST to Mexico City
- SAST to BRT
- SAST to ART
- SAST to EET
- SAST to WET
- SAST to MSK
- SAST to TRT
- SAST to WAT
- SAST to EAT
- SAST to GST
- SAST to PKT
- SAST to ICT
- SAST to WIB
- SAST to SGT
- SAST to HKT
- SAST to KST
- SAST to PHT
- SAST to AWST
- SAST to ACST
- SAST to NZST
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