Rifle in numbers
- Coordinates
- -30.3631, 26.7829
- Region
- Free State
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 865 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Rifle, Free State, South Africa
This page holds the current clock reading for Rifle, Free State, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Rifle, South Africa
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Rifle
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Rifle.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:19 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:36 PM Daylight 13 h 17 min Night 10 h 43 min Civil twilight 4:54 AM – 7:01 PM
Weather in Rifle right now
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Rifle and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9958 Free State — 7.7 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
Other places named Rifle
- Rifle Colorado, 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
- Skatfontein — 2.4 km
- Visgat — 3.1 km
- Brakgrond — 4.3 km
- Bloemendat — 5.0 km
- Novo — 5.3 km
- Leeuspruit — 6.1 km
Local time details for Rifle
Skatfontein and Visgat are near Rifle and do not differ from it in time.
1 postal code is in use across Rifle.
The name of the time zone in Rifle is Africa/Johannesburg, and it runs UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Today, Rifle has first light at 5:19 AM and last light at 6:36 PM. Daylight lasts 13 h 17 min.
Questions and answers
- What is Rifle's time zone?
- Rifle's time zone is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does Rifle keep the same offset year round, or does it use daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Rifle: No.
- When does daylight begin in Rifle?
- Daylight begins at 5:19 AM.