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
The time you see here is the local time in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Newcastle, South Africa
Thursday, 15 October 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 5:25 AM Solar noon 11:47 AM Sunset 6:09 PM Daylight 12 h 43 min Night 11 h 17 min Civil twilight 5:02 AM – 6:33 PM
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
There is no time difference between Newcastle and nearby Amiel Park or Fairleigh.
11 postal codes are current for Newcastle.
Time in Newcastle runs on Africa/Johannesburg, which is UTC+2. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
In Newcastle today the sun is out from 5:25 AM until 6:09 PM. That comes to 12 h 43 min of daylight.
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 6:09 PM.