Lower Gretna in numbers
- Coordinates
- -31.5299, 26.6357
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 797 km away
What time is it in Lower Gretna, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The time you see here is the local time in Lower Gretna, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Lower Gretna, South Africa
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Lower Gretna
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Lower Gretna.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:15 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:41 PM Daylight 13 h 26 min Night 10 h 34 min Civil twilight 4:50 AM – 7:07 PM
Weather in Lower Gretna right now
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Lower Gretna and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5425 Sterkstroom — 9.1 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
- Upper Gretna — 3.2 km
- Primgradia — 4.0 km
- Esperanza — 5.2 km
- Strathfield — 6.1 km
- Clifton — 6.2 km
- Verdien — 6.2 km
Local time details for Lower Gretna
Postal codes tied to Lower Gretna number 1.
The zone that governs Lower Gretna is Africa/Johannesburg at UTC+2. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
The sun rises at 5:15 AM above Lower Gretna and sets at 6:41 PM today. Daylight lasts about 13 h 26 min.
Around Lower Gretna, places such as Upper Gretna and Primgradia use the same time.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is local to Lower Gretna?
- The time zone local to Lower Gretna is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Is the offset in Lower Gretna changed for daylight saving?
- No.
- When does morning light reach Lower Gretna?
- At 5:15 AM.