Meeting time
Best time to meet: Cape Town and Lima
Cape Town is 7 hours ahead of Lima right now. Their working days overlap for 1 hour: 4 PM to 5 PM in Cape Town, which is 9 AM to 10 AM in Lima. The easiest time to meet is 4 PM in Cape Town (9 AM in Lima).
Hour by hour
With the clocks as they are on November 10, 2026, Cape Town time on the left. A working day here is 9 AM to 5 PM.
| Cape Town | Lima | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 AM | 11 PM day before | Both off |
| 7 AM | 12 AM | Both off |
| 8 AM | 1 AM | Both off |
| 9 AM | 2 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 10 AM | 3 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 11 AM | 4 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 12 PM | 5 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 1 PM | 6 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 2 PM | 7 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 3 PM | 8 AM | Cape Town at work |
| 4 PM | 9 AM | Easiest time |
| 5 PM | 10 AM | Lima at work |
| 6 PM | 11 AM | Lima at work |
| 7 PM | 12 PM | Lima at work |
| 8 PM | 1 PM | Lima at work |
| 9 PM | 2 PM | Lima at work |
| 10 PM | 3 PM | Lima at work |
All year
The gap between Cape Town and Lima does not move during the year, so the table above holds all year.
Cape Town keeps the same clock as Johannesburg; Lima keeps the same clock as Bogotá.
Questions people ask
2 AM in Lima, while Cape Town is 7 hours ahead.
4 PM in Cape Town, which is 9 AM in Lima. Both cities are at work from 4 PM to 5 PM Cape Town time.
No. It stays 7 hours all year: the clocks either do not change or change on the same day in both.
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