Plaatfontein in numbers
- Coordinates
- -31.3759, 25.8336
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 733 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Plaatfontein, Eastern Cape, South Africa
See what time it currently is in Plaatfontein, Eastern Cape, South Africa — the time zone there is Africa/Johannesburg (+2).
Plaatfontein, South Africa
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Plaatfontein
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Plaatfontein, Eastern Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:20 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 6:42 PM Daylight 13 h 22 min Night 10 h 38 min Civil twilight 4:55 AM – 7:08 PM
Weather in Plaatfontein right now
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Plaatfontein and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5920 Steynsburg — 8.6 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
Other places named Plaatfontein
- Plaatfontein Eastern Cape, South Africa
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
- Vrede — 2.2 km
- Teneriffe — 2.7 km
- Plaaffontein (1) — 3.3 km
- Voorspoed — 3.4 km
- Spitskop — 4.3 km
- Ekron — 4.4 km
Plaatfontein: clock, sun and surroundings
1 postal code describe the layout of Plaatfontein.
Clocks in Plaatfontein take Africa/Johannesburg as their zone, reading UTC+2. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunlight reaches Plaatfontein at 5:20 AM and fades after 6:42 PM today. The span is 13 h 22 min.
You will find the same time in Vrede and Teneriffe, both near Plaatfontein.
Questions and answers
- Which zone should be used to show the time in Plaatfontein?
- Use Africa/Johannesburg to show the time in Plaatfontein; its offset is +2.
- Do clocks in Plaatfontein shift for daylight saving time?
- No.
- Which time marks sunrise in Plaatfontein?
- 5:20 AM marks sunrise.