Rooifontein in numbers
- Coordinates
- -29.1702, 26.8671
- Region
- Free State
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 943 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Rooifontein, Free State, South Africa
The time in Rooifontein, Free State, South Africa at this very moment is shown below, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Rooifontein, South Africa
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Rooifontein
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Rooifontein keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:15 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 6:40 PM Daylight 13 h 26 min Night 10 h 34 min Civil twilight 4:49 AM – 7:06 PM
Weather in Rooifontein right now
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Rooifontein and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9783 Ga-Rapulana — 5.9 km away
- 9784 Thaba Nchu — 6.1 km away
- 9790 Thaba Nchu — 6.1 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 Rooifontein
- Rooifontein Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Rooifontein Northern Cape, South Africa
- Rooifontein 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
- Motlatla — 3.3 km
- Motlala — 3.3 km
- Mokwena — 3.8 km
- Bultfontein Number Three — 4.7 km
- Thaba Nchu — 5.1 km
- Ratlau — 5.5 km
About the time in Rooifontein
The time zone here in Rooifontein is Africa/Johannesburg, offset UTC+2. Does daylight saving apply? No.
The sun comes up over Rooifontein at 5:15 AM today and drops below the horizon at 6:40 PM. That is 13 h 26 min between the two.
Motlala and Motlatla sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind Rooifontein.
Within Rooifontein, postal codes number 3.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone should I use for Rooifontein?
- Use Africa/Johannesburg for Rooifontein; its offset is +2.
- Does Rooifontein change its clocks twice a year?
- Daylight saving time in Rooifontein: No.
- How late does the sun set in Rooifontein?
- The last sunlight comes at 6:40 PM.