Richards Bay in numbers
- Coordinates
- -28.7830, 32.0377
- Population
- 252 968
- Region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1396 km away
What time is it in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Use this page to see what time it is in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — the Africa/Johannesburg zone applies there (+2).
Richards Bay, South Africa
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Richards Bay
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Richards Bay keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 4:55 AM Solar noon 11:37 AM Sunset 6:19 PM Daylight 13 h 24 min Night 10 h 36 min Civil twilight 4:29 AM – 6:44 PM
Weather in Richards Bay right now
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Richards Bay and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 3900
- 3902
- 3903
- 3904
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
- Newcastle 404 838
- Kwadukuza 161 177
- Vryheid 150 012
- Pinetown 144 026
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
- Arboretum — 3.7 km
- Alton — 3.8 km
- Veldenvlei — 5.3 km
- Mandlazini — 5.5 km
- The Village — 5.9 km
- Brackenham — 6.8 km
Time and daylight in Richards Bay
Richards Bay sits under Africa/Johannesburg, which puts local clocks at UTC+2. Daylight saving in use: No.
Sunrise reaches Richards Bay at 4:55 AM, and the sun sets at 6:19 PM. Light lasts 13 h 24 min.
Close by, Arboretum and Alton keep time with Richards Bay.
4 postal codes are current for Richards Bay.
Questions and answers
- What is Richards Bay's time zone?
- Richards Bay's time zone is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does Richards Bay switch between standard time and daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Richards Bay: No.
- What time is sunset in Richards Bay?
- It is 6:19 PM.