Rietgat in numbers
- Coordinates
- -31.6765, 26.5183
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 780 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Rietgat, Eastern Cape, South Africa
What follows is the current local time in Rietgat, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Rietgat, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Rietgat
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Rietgat keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:35 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 6:26 PM Daylight 12 h 52 min Night 11 h 08 min Civil twilight 5:10 AM – 6:51 PM
Weather in Rietgat right now
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Rietgat and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5425 Sterkstroom — 12.6 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 Rietgat
- Rietgat Northern 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
- Geluksvlei — 2.6 km
- Martindale — 3.8 km
- Sonskyn — 3.9 km
- Woltemade — 4.4 km
- Sterkfontein (1) — 5.5 km
- Vosloosrust — 6.3 km
Time and daylight in Rietgat
Places close to Rietgat, among them Geluksvlei and Martindale, share its time.
The register holds 1 postal code for Rietgat.
The time zone assigned to Rietgat is Africa/Johannesburg, held at UTC+2. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Rietgat gets its sunrise at 5:35 AM and its sunset at 6:26 PM today. Daylight lasts a full 12 h 52 min.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for Rietgat identified?
- The time zone for Rietgat is identified as Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Rietgat?
- Daylight saving time in Rietgat: No.
- Sunset in Rietgat is at what time?
- At 6:26 PM.