Herschel in numbers
- Coordinates
- -30.6154, 27.1641
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 884 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
This page displays how late it is in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Herschel, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Herschel
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Herschel.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:33 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:23 PM Daylight 12 h 50 min Night 11 h 10 min Civil twilight 5:08 AM – 6:48 PM
Weather in Herschel right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Herschel and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9756
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 Herschel
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
- Entsimekweni — 3.5 km
- Coville — 3.7 km
- Longsought — 4.5 km
- Ou Tol — 4.8 km
- Naledi — 5.0 km
- Tugela — 5.4 km
Local time details for Herschel
Today the sun comes up at 5:33 AM in Herschel and goes down at 6:23 PM. Daylight measures 12 h 50 min.
Entsimekweni and Coville are close to Herschel and observe the same time.
Across Herschel, 1 postal code is recorded.
Herschel sits under Africa/Johannesburg, which puts local clocks at UTC+2. Daylight saving in use: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does Herschel observe?
- Herschel observes Africa/Johannesburg, whose offset is +2.
- Does Herschel switch between standard time and daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Herschel: No.
- What time is first light in Herschel?
- The sun rises at 5:33 AM.