Mthatha in numbers
- Coordinates
- -31.5889, 28.7844
- Population
- 164 848
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 986 km away
What time is it in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Local time in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa is shown on this page, based on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Mthatha, South Africa
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Mthatha
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Mthatha keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:08 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 6:32 PM Daylight 13 h 24 min Night 10 h 36 min Civil twilight 4:42 AM – 6:57 PM
Weather in Mthatha right now
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Mthatha and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5109 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5127 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5122 Port St Johns — 0.6 km away
- 5121 Port St Johns — 0.6 km away
- 5120 Port St Johns — 0.6 km away
- 5117 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5116 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5115 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5114 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5113 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 5111 Umtata — 0.6 km away
- 4740 Umtata — 0.6 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
- Gqeberha 1 050 078
- East London 478 676
- Kariega 291 052
- Mdantsane 205 504
- Bhisho 137 287
- Queenstown 118 599
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
- Ngangelizwe — 2.7 km
- South African National Tuberculosis Settlement — 2.9 km
- Ncambedlana — 3.0 km
- Fort Gale — 3.7 km
- Ncambedlana — 3.8 km
- Chumbi — 4.9 km
About the time in Mthatha
Local clocks in Mthatha follow the Africa/Johannesburg zone, UTC+2. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Sunrise reaches Mthatha at 5:08 AM, and the sun sets at 6:32 PM. Light lasts 13 h 24 min.
Same time, different place: Ngangelizwe and South African National Tuberculosis Settlement near Mthatha.
Postal codes assigned across Mthatha total 12.
Questions and answers
- Does Mthatha use the Africa/Johannesburg time zone?
- Yes, Mthatha uses Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does Mthatha switch between standard time and daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Mthatha: No.
- At what time is the sun rising in Mthatha?
- The sun is rising at 5:08 AM.