Baakfontein in numbers
- Coordinates
- -29.6503, 26.3564
- Region
- Free State
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 872 km away
What time is it in Baakfontein, Free State, South Africa
The time in Baakfontein, Free State, South Africa at this very moment is shown below, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Baakfontein, South Africa
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Baakfontein
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Baakfontein keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:19 AM Solar noon 11:59 AM Sunset 6:39 PM Daylight 13 h 20 min Night 10 h 40 min Civil twilight 4:54 AM – 7:04 PM
Weather in Baakfontein right now
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Baakfontein and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 2920 Wasbank — 7.8 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 Free State
- Bloemfontein 556 637
- Welkom 431 944
- Botshabelo 309 714
- Sasolburg 135 828
- Virginia 122 502
- Kroonstad 117 152
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
- Hessiesdeel — 2.9 km
- Annex — 3.3 km
- Tieniesrand — 3.9 km
- Diefontein — 4.0 km
- Grootwater — 4.3 km
- Grootverlang — 5.7 km
Local time details for Baakfontein
There is 1 postal code zones in Baakfontein.
Baakfontein runs on Africa/Johannesburg, which sits UTC+2 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Sunrise comes to Baakfontein at 5:19 AM and sunset at 6:39 PM today. Together that makes 13 h 20 min of light.
Hessiesdeel and Annex are near Baakfontein and do not differ from it in time.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Baakfontein?
- Baakfontein observes the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Does Baakfontein run on daylight saving time for part of the year?
- Daylight saving in Baakfontein: No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in Baakfontein — what are they?
- Sunrise at 5:19 AM, sunset at 6:39 PM.