Paterson in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.4406, 25.9741
- Population
- 6 687
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 685 km away
- Same name
- 6 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Paterson, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Watch the current local time in Paterson, Eastern Cape, South Africa, running on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Paterson, South Africa
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Paterson
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Paterson, Eastern Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:12 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 6:50 PM Daylight 13 h 39 min Night 10 h 21 min Civil twilight 4:45 AM – 7:17 PM
Weather in Paterson right now
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Paterson and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6130
- 6131
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 Paterson
- Paterson New Jersey, United States
- Paterson New South Wales, Australia
- Paterson Queensland, Australia
- Paterson Manitoba, Canada
- Paterson Washington, United States
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
- Lokasie — 1.1 km
- Melrose — 1.9 km
- Longlee — 7.5 km
- Bellevue — 8.1 km
- Fowlds — 13.4 km
- Kromriver — 14.8 km
About the time in Paterson
Paterson stands in Africa/Johannesburg, an offset of UTC+2 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: No.
Today at Paterson, the sun rises at 5:12 AM and sets at 6:50 PM. That gives 13 h 39 min of daylight.
The time given for Paterson holds for nearby Lokasie and Melrose too.
Coverage of Paterson by postal code amounts to 2 entries.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Paterson?
- Enter Africa/Johannesburg as the time zone for Paterson; its offset is +2.
- Do people in Paterson set their clocks forward in spring?
- Daylight saving in Paterson: No.
- At what time is the sun setting in Paterson?
- The sun is setting at 6:50 PM.