Johannesburg to Chicago time
Looking to build a web app, a mobile app or a website for your shop or business, or want more leads? Boffin Coders, who build timezones.in, can help. Talk to us → (opens in a new tab)
SAST · UTC+2 → CDT · UTC−5
Johannesburg is 7 hours ahead of Chicago
Johannesburg · SAST
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Chicago · CDT
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
When are both sides at work?Each column is one hour of the day in the first city; the second row shows the same moment in the other city. Gold means office hours (09:00–18:00), dusk means awake but off work, night means asleep (23:00–07:00). Columns where both rows are gold are good meeting times.
Shared working hours: 16:00–18:00 in Johannesburg is 09:00–11:00 in Chicago.
Working (09–18) Awake, off the clock Asleep (23–07)
Pick a time and share it
04:58 Thu 8 Oct Johannesburg = 21:58 Wed 7 Oct Chicago
Hour-by-hour conversion
| JohannesburgEvery hour of today in the first city, with the matching time in the second. “Next day” means the calendar date is already tomorrow there. The highlighted row is right now. | Chicago | |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 17:00prev. day | |
| 01:00 | 18:00prev. day | |
| 02:00 | 19:00prev. day | |
| 03:00 | 20:00prev. day | |
| 04:00 | 21:00prev. day | Now |
| 05:00 | 22:00prev. day | |
| 06:00 | 23:00prev. day | |
| 07:00 | 00:00 | |
| 08:00 | 01:00 | |
| 09:00 | 02:00 | |
| 10:00 | 03:00 | |
| 11:00 | 04:00 | |
| 12:00 | 05:00 | |
| 13:00 | 06:00 | |
| 14:00 | 07:00 | |
| 15:00 | 08:00 | |
| 16:00 | 09:00 | Both at work |
| 17:00 | 10:00 | Both at work |
| 18:00 | 11:00 | |
| 19:00 | 12:00 | |
| 20:00 | 13:00 | |
| 21:00 | 14:00 | |
| 22:00 | 15:00 | |
| 23:00 | 16:00 |
Planning between Johannesburg and Chicago
Johannesburg (Africa/Johannesburg) is UTC+2 and Chicago (America/Chicago) is UTC−5 right now. Working hours are shown as 09:00–18:00 local, sleeping hours as 23:00–07:00.
- 09:00 in Johannesburg is 02:00 in Chicago
- 12:00 in Johannesburg is 05:00 in Chicago
- 15:00 in Johannesburg is 08:00 in Chicago
- 18:00 in Johannesburg is 11:00 in Chicago
Reverse: Chicago to Johannesburg. Or open both in the meeting planner with more cities.