Potchefstroom in numbers
- Coordinates
- -26.7167, 27.1000
- Population
- 178 285
- Region
- North West
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 1141 km away
What time is it in Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa
Get the current local time in Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa, a location in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Potchefstroom
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Potchefstroom, North West.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:23 AM Solar noon 11:56 AM Sunset 6:30 PM Daylight 13 h 07 min Night 10 h 53 min Civil twilight 4:58 AM – 6:54 PM
Weather in Potchefstroom right now
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Potchefstroom and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 2520
- 2521
- 2522
- 2523
- 2524
- 2525
- 2526
- 2527
- 2528
- 2529
- 2530
- 2531
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 North West
- Soshanguve 872 309
- Rustenburg 373 695
- Klerksdorp 227 039
- Brits 122 497
- Hammanskraal 112 950
- Orkney 110 052
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
- Grimbeek Park — 0.7 km
- Baillie Park — 1.8 km
- Vyfhoek — 3.3 km
- Mooibank — 4.8 km
- Sacville — 5.0 km
- Tlokwe City Council — 5.5 km
Time and daylight in Potchefstroom
The sun rises at 5:23 AM, sets at 6:30 PM, and stays over Potchefstroom for 13 h 07 min. That is today's daylight.
Nearby Grimbeek Park and Baillie Park need no separate clock from Potchefstroom.
A total of 12 postal codes belong to Potchefstroom.
Potchefstroom keeps time under Africa/Johannesburg. That places it at UTC+2, with daylight saving time No.
Questions and answers
- Is Africa/Johannesburg the time zone for Potchefstroom?
- Yes, Africa/Johannesburg is the time zone for Potchefstroom, with an offset of +2.
- Does the time in Potchefstroom shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in Potchefstroom — what are they?
- Sunrise at 5:23 AM, sunset at 6:30 PM.