Current time in Cape Town

Cape Town's Table Mountain at golden hour is one of the world's great natural spectacles — the flat-topped mountain catches the last horizontal rays of light and glows a deep amber while the city below is already in shadow.

Cape Town sits at 33° south latitude — almost exactly mirroring Barcelona's latitude in the Northern Hemisphere. Their golden hours are calendrical mirrors of each other — when Barcelona has long summer evenings, Cape Town has long summer mornings.

Cape Town is where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet at Cape Point — meaning you can watch the sun set over the Atlantic and then drive 45 minutes to watch it rise over the Indian Ocean the next morning. Two oceans, one city.

The Cape Winelands just outside the city produce some of the world's finest wines — and the vineyards at golden hour, with Table Mountain as backdrop, create photographs that sell more wine than any advertisement.

African penguins at Boulders Beach come ashore right around golden hour every evening. Watching penguins waddle up the beach as the sun sets over the Atlantic is uniquely Cape Town.

Cape Town shares South Africa Standard Time (UTC+2) with Johannesburg — but Cape Town's more western position means the sun rises and sets noticeably earlier there than in Jo'burg, despite the same clock time.