Forest Downs in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.6108, 26.8753
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 766 km away
What time is it in Forest Downs, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Read off the current local time in Forest Downs, Eastern Cape, South Africa, which belongs to the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Forest Downs, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Forest Downs
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Forest Downs, Eastern Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:31 AM Solar noon 11:59 AM Sunset 6:27 PM Daylight 12 h 55 min Night 11 h 05 min Civil twilight 5:06 AM – 6:52 PM
Weather in Forest Downs right now
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Forest Downs and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6170 Port Alfred — 2.6 km away
- 6171 Port Alfred — 2.6 km away
- 6172 Port Alfred — 2.6 km away
- 6173 Port Alfred — 2.6 km away
- 6175 Colchester — 2.6 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
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
- Beachfront — 1.4 km
- West Bank — 1.4 km
- Westview Heights — 1.4 km
- Royal Alfred Acre Golf and Lifestyle Resort — 1.4 km
- Port Alfred — 2.9 km
- Station Hill — 3.4 km
Time and daylight in Forest Downs
The sun rises today at 5:31 AM in Forest Downs and sets at 6:27 PM. Daylight covers 12 h 55 min.
Neighbours of Forest Downs such as Beachfront and Royal Alfred Acre Golf and Lifestyle Resort share its clock.
Deliveries to Forest Downs are sorted by 5 postal codes.
Clocks across Forest Downs run on Africa/Johannesburg at UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Questions and answers
- What zone is Forest Downs in for local time?
- For local time, Forest Downs is in Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Is summer time in effect in Forest Downs at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Forest Downs: No.
- When does evening light leave Forest Downs?
- At 6:27 PM.