Live in Cape Town, work with a team in London
Living in Cape Town while working with a team in London gives you about 7 overlapping working hours a day (08:00–15:00 UTC). That's "easy": Plenty of shared hours, this works like same-office.
You'd live in
works with → Your team is in
Cape Townyour day
08:00–17:00 local
Londontheir day
09:00–17:00 local
Sharedboth at work
08:00–15:00 UTC
10:00–17:00 in Cape Town 09:00–16:00 in London
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13:08–13:53 Cape Town 12:08–12:53 London
Working hours
National conventions are the default and the public figure. Change them here for your own answer — the chart, the window and the calendar file all follow.
Cape Town 08:00 – 17:00 9 h
London 09:00 – 17:00 8 h
7hoverlap
easy, Plenty of shared hours, this works like same-office. Best window 08:00–15:00 UTC.
Sources and last check
Times, offsets and sun positions on this page are computed live from the IANA timezone database and the NOAA solar algorithm, so they do not depend on the review dates below.
- Relative price level per country, United States = 100
- Source: Curated approximation from public cost-of-living summaries, pending the first run of scripts/build-cost.mjs. Last checked, reviewed every 12 months.
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- Source: IANA tzdb for zones, public geographic data for coordinates. Last checked, reviewed every 12 months.
The working week
- Cape Town
- 08:00 to 17:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
- London
- 09:00 to 17:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
FAQ
How many hours do Cape Town and London overlap?
Around 7 hours a day (08:00–15:00 UTC), taking each country's own working day: 08:00–17:00 in Cape Town and 09:00–17:00 in London.
Does remote work from Cape Town to London work?
Plenty of shared hours, this works like same-office.
Other bases
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