Welkom in numbers
- Coordinates
- -31.3548, 25.6639
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 719 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Welkom, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The clock on this page follows the local time of Welkom, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Welkom, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Welkom
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Welkom keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:38 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 6:30 PM Daylight 12 h 51 min Night 11 h 09 min Civil twilight 5:14 AM – 6:54 PM
Weather in Welkom right now
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Welkom and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9438
- 9459
- 9460
- 9462
- 9463
- 9465
- 9466
- 9467
- 9468
- 9469
- 9470
- 9471
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 Welkom
- Welkom Free State, South Africa
- Welkom Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
- Welkom KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Welkom Free State, South Africa
- Welkom Limpopo, 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
- Middelplass — 0.6 km
- Tolfelberg — 2.9 km
- Grootvlei (1) — 3.2 km
- Thebus Waters — 3.7 km
- White House — 4.5 km
- Devon House — 5.0 km
Welkom: clock, sun and surroundings
The mail network in Welkom covers 12 codes.
Welkom is served by the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, offset UTC+2. Daylight saving time applies: No.
For Welkom today, sunrise is 5:38 AM and sunset is 6:30 PM. Daylight lasts 12 h 51 min.
Time runs the same in Welkom and in nearby Middelplass and Tolfelberg.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by Welkom?
- Welkom uses the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, which has an offset of +2.
- Is there any clock change for daylight saving in Welkom?
- Daylight saving in Welkom: No.
- Do you know the time of sunset in Welkom?
- Yes, it is 6:30 PM.