Fort Beaufort in numbers
- Coordinates
- -32.7748, 26.6338
- Population
- 58 419
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 757 km away
Local time in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa is shown on this page, based on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Fort Beaufort, South Africa
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Fort Beaufort
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Fort Beaufort keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
Sunrise 5:09 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:47 PM Daylight 13 h 38 min Night 10 h 22 min Civil twilight 4:43 AM – 7:14 PM
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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.
Fort Beaufort sits in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, which runs at UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise time for Fort Beaufort today is 5:09 AM; sunset time is 6:47 PM. Daylight fills 13 h 38 min.
Close to Fort Beaufort, the towns of Kwatinidubu and Magaleni show the same time.
Postal designations for Fort Beaufort total 2.