Germiston in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.2348, 28.1766
- Population
- 255 863
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1254 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa
Below you can see what the time is in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa now, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Germiston, South Africa
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Germiston
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Germiston.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:15 AM Solar noon 11:52 AM Sunset 6:29 PM Daylight 13 h 14 min Night 10 h 46 min Civil twilight 4:51 AM – 6:53 PM
Weather in Germiston right now
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Germiston and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 1401
- 1402
- 1403
- 1404
- 1405
- 1407
- 1408
- 1410
- 1411
- 1412
- 1413
- 1414
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
Other places named Germiston
- Germiston Scotland, United Kingdom
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
- Webber — 0.5 km
- Lambton — 1.0 km
- Hazel Park — 1.7 km
- Dukathole — 1.8 km
- Dinwiddie — 2.1 km
- Elsburg — 2.4 km
Time and daylight in Germiston
First light in Germiston comes at 5:15 AM today; darkness returns after 6:29 PM. The day gives 13 h 14 min of light.
Neighbouring Webber and Lambton keep the same hours as Germiston.
There are 12 postal code zones in Germiston.
Local clocks in Germiston answer to Africa/Johannesburg, set UTC+2 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Germiston?
- Germiston observes the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Does the clock in Germiston move for summer time?
- No.
- How late does the sun set in Germiston?
- The last sunlight comes at 6:29 PM.