The festive season is all about celebrating the many intangible gifts that have been given to us.
This is a special time for families to come together and spend some much-needed quality time with their loved ones.
For many, however, this season will be spent far away from home.
Away from those they love the most. Luckily, there are tools like Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp , Twitter or even WeChat, that have made it easy for us to communicate with anyone across the world.
With such great functions like FaceTime, feeling closer to the ones furthest from you is all but a dial away.
Now, probably the only thing standing in your way of communication would be knowing what time it is overseas during this magical festive season.
To make life even easier, so you do not to lose track of precious time, a compiled list of some of the more popular destinations is given to assist you with your worldwide greetings of love.
While you might be celebrating your Christmas in South Africa, please bear in mind that others might be celebrating after or ahead of you.
Different countries celebrate at their own time zones, below are some of the time difference between them and South Africa.
Here are a few time zones for Christmas from Time and date:
- New York -7 hours
- Australia -4 hours
- Hong Kong + 7 hours
- London -2 hours
- Moscow +1 hour
- Dubai + 2 hours
- Paris -1 hour
- London +2 hours
- Tokyo +7 hours
- Los Angeles -10 hours
So now, when you find yourself being nostalgic and missing the ones closest to you, you can quickly schedule a time at your convenience to show the homely warmth form the other side of the world.
