Sharpeville in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.6842, 27.8743
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1197 km away
What time is it in Sharpeville, Gauteng, South Africa
Check the current local time in Sharpeville, Gauteng, South Africa, which sits in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Sharpeville, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Sharpeville
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Sharpeville keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:33 AM Solar noon 11:55 AM Sunset 6:17 PM Daylight 12 h 43 min Night 11 h 17 min Civil twilight 5:10 AM – 6:40 PM
Weather in Sharpeville right now
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Sharpeville and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 1913
- 1928
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
- Bedworth Park — 2.6 km
- Boipatong — 3.0 km
- Vanderbijlpark CE 2 — 4.2 km
- Vanderbijlpark — 4.7 km
- Vereeniging — 5.3 km
- Richmond — 6.4 km
Sharpeville: clock, sun and surroundings
2 postal codes are current for Sharpeville.
Sharpeville keeps the Africa/Johannesburg zone, which is UTC+2. Whether summer time is observed: No.
At Sharpeville the sun clears the horizon at 5:33 AM and sinks again at 6:17 PM. The gap between them is 12 h 43 min.
The clock does not change between Sharpeville, Bedworth Park and Boipatong.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Sharpeville follow?
- Sharpeville follows Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Is summer time in effect in Sharpeville at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Sharpeville: No.
- When should I expect the sun to rise in Sharpeville?
- Expect it at 5:33 AM.