Brakpan in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.2366, 28.3694
- Population
- 305 692
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1267 km away
What time is it in Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa
This is the current time in Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa, shown for the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Brakpan, South Africa
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Brakpan
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Brakpan.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:31 AM Solar noon 11:53 AM Sunset 6:15 PM Daylight 12 h 44 min Night 11 h 16 min Civil twilight 5:07 AM – 6:39 PM
Weather in Brakpan right now
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Brakpan and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 1540
- 1541
- 1542
- 1543
- 1544
- 1545
- 1546
- 1547
- 1548
- 1549
- 1550
- 1552
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
- Brenthurst — 1.4 km
- Dalview — 2.8 km
- Schapenrust — 3.4 km
- Dalpark — 3.9 km
- Brakpan North — 4.2 km
- Rynsoord — 5.0 km
Local time details for Brakpan
The clock reading for Brakpan covers nearby Brenthurst and Dalview as well.
Brakpan spans 12 postal codes.
Brakpan sits in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, which runs at UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Today at Brakpan, the sun rises at 5:31 AM and sets at 6:15 PM. That gives 12 h 44 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What is the time zone name for Brakpan?
- The time zone name used for Brakpan is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does Brakpan stay on standard time all year?
- Daylight saving in Brakpan: No.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Brakpan?
- It sets at 6:15 PM.