Boksburg in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.2120, 28.2596
- Population
- 445 168
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1262 km away
What time is it in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Learn the current time in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa, a place in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Boksburg, South Africa
Thursday, 15 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Boksburg
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Boksburg keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:33 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 6:14 PM Daylight 12 h 41 min Night 11 h 19 min Civil twilight 5:10 AM – 6:38 PM
Weather in Boksburg right now
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Boksburg and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 1446
- 1459
- 1460
- 1461
- 1462
- 1463
- 1464
- 1465
- 1466
- 1467
- 1469
- 1470
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 Gauteng
- Johannesburg 9 418 183
- Pretoria 2 112 693
- Soweto 1 695 047
- Soshanguve 872 309
- Evaton 725 468
- Benoni 605 344
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
- Boksburg North — 0.9 km
- Ravenswood — 1.8 km
- Parkdene — 2.1 km
- Actonville — 3.5 km
- Parkrand — 3.8 km
- Libradene — 3.9 km
Time and daylight in Boksburg
12 postal codes are attached to Boksburg.
The zone covering Boksburg is called Africa/Johannesburg and stands at UTC+2. Seasonal clock changes apply: No.
The sun rises at 5:33 AM above Boksburg and sets at 6:14 PM today. Daylight lasts about 12 h 41 min.
Places close to Boksburg, among them Boksburg North and Ravenswood, share its time.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone Boksburg uses?
- Boksburg uses the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Is the hour in Boksburg changed for daylight saving at any time of year?
- No.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Boksburg.
- The sunset hour is 6:14 PM.