Welkom in numbers
- Coordinates
- -29.0054, 25.6196
- Region
- Free State
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 860 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Welkom, Free State, South Africa
Watch the current local time in Welkom, Free State, South Africa, running on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Welkom, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Welkom
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Welkom, Free State.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:41 AM Solar noon 12:04 PM Sunset 6:28 PM Daylight 12 h 47 min Night 11 h 13 min Civil twilight 5:16 AM – 6:52 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 Free State
- Bloemfontein 556 637
- Welkom 431 944
- Botshabelo 309 714
- Sasolburg 135 828
- Virginia 122 502
- Kroonstad 117 152
Other places named Welkom
- Welkom Free State, South Africa
- Welkom Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
- Welkom KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Welkom Eastern Cape, 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
- Oranje — 4.2 km
- Dahlia — 6.1 km
- Morester — 6.7 km
- Olyvenkoppiespan — 8.3 km
- De Rust — 9.2 km
- Kaffershop — 9.7 km
About the time in Welkom
Nearby places that share Welkom's clock include Oranje and Dahlia.
12 postal codes are in use across Welkom.
Welkom carries the Africa/Johannesburg zone, offset UTC+2. Whether daylight saving time is applied: No.
In Welkom the sun appears at 5:41 AM and disappears at 6:28 PM today. Daylight stretches 12 h 47 min.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone Welkom uses?
- Welkom uses the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Does Welkom shift its clocks seasonally?
- Daylight saving time in Welkom: No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Welkom — what times?
- 5:41 AM and 6:28 PM.