Newcastle in numbers
- Coordinates
- -27.7580, 29.9318
- Population
- 404 838
- Region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1278 km away
- Same name
- 28 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Below you can see what the time is in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa now, in the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Newcastle, South Africa
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Newcastle
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:12 Solar noon 12:01 Sunset 17:49 Daylight 11 h 37 min Night 12 h 23 min Civil twilight 05:49 – 18:13
Weather in Newcastle right now
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Newcastle and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 2940
- 2941
- 2942
- 2944
- 2945
- 2950
- 2953
- 2954
- 2956
- 2958
- 3082
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 KwaZulu-Natal
- Durban 3 338 026
- Pietermaritzburg 839 327
- Richards Bay 252 968
- Kwadukuza 161 177
- Vryheid 150 012
- Pinetown 144 026
Other places named Newcastle
- Newcastle New South Wales, Australia
- Newcastle Washington, United States
- Newcastle Oklahoma, United States
- Newcastle Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Newcastle Wyoming, United States
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
- Amiel Park — 1.7 km
- Fairleigh — 2.2 km
- Lennoxton — 2.3 km
- Hutton Heights — 2.6 km
- Arbor Park — 2.8 km
- Madadeni — 10.3 km
Local time details for Newcastle
Time in Newcastle runs on Africa/Johannesburg, which is UTC+2. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Newcastle sees first light at 06:12 today and the sun sets at 17:49. Daylight totals 11 h 37 min.
Time in Newcastle applies without change in Amiel Park and Fairleigh nearby.
The postal code count for Newcastle is 11.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone contains Newcastle?
- Newcastle is in Africa/Johannesburg, which has an offset of +2.
- What time zone rules apply in Newcastle — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Newcastle: No.
- When is the sun down in Newcastle?
- The sun goes down at 17:49.