Dorset in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.5833, 26.6500
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 746 km away
- Same name
- 8 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Dorset, Eastern Cape, South Africa
See the local time in Dorset, Eastern Cape, South Africa right now, measured in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Dorset, South Africa
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Dorset
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Dorset.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:18 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:39 PM Daylight 13 h 21 min Night 10 h 39 min Civil twilight 4:52 AM – 7:05 PM
Weather in Dorset right now
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Dorset and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6191 Kenton On Sea — 13.3 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Eastern Cape
Other places named Dorset
- Dorset Vermont, United States
- Dorset Ontario, Canada
- Dorset Virginia, United States
- Dorset Minnesota, United States
- Dorset Ohio, United States
Same time zone — Africa/Johannesburg
- Johannesburg South Africa
- Cape Town South Africa
- Durban South Africa
- Pretoria South Africa
- Soweto South Africa
- Gqeberha South Africa
Nearby places
- Lombards Post — 5.8 km
- Glenretha — 6.7 km
- Locke Moore — 9.3 km
- Kenton — 9.3 km
- Bellcrest — 9.6 km
- Kasouga Road — 10.0 km
About the time in Dorset
1 codes make up the postal map of Dorset.
For Dorset the applicable zone is Africa/Johannesburg, running UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise time for Dorset today is 5:18 AM; sunset time is 6:39 PM. Daylight fills 13 h 21 min.
The clock does not change between Dorset, Lombards Post and Glenretha.
Questions and answers
- Under which time zone does Dorset fall?
- Dorset falls under Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does the local schedule in Dorset include a clock change?
- No.
- When does the sun go down in Dorset?
- Sunset in Dorset is at 6:39 PM.