Ritchie in numbers
- Coordinates
- -29.0380, 24.6028
- Population
- 9 960
- Region
- Northern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 785 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Ritchie, Northern Cape, South Africa
Local time right now in Ritchie, Northern Cape, South Africa appears above, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Ritchie, South Africa
Friday, 30 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Ritchie
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Ritchie keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:31 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 6:41 PM Daylight 13 h 10 min Night 10 h 50 min Civil twilight 5:06 AM – 7:06 PM
Weather in Ritchie right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Ritchie and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 8701
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 Northern Cape
- Kimberley 142 089
- Upington 71 373
- De Aar 32 318
- Postmasburg 30 089
- Pampierstad 21 707
- Warrenton 17 946
Other places named Ritchie
- Ritchie Alberta, Canada
- Ritchie New Brunswick, Canada
- Ritchie Chari-Baguirmi, Chad
- Ritchie Arkansas, United States
- Ritchie Illinois, 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
- Pelindaba — 2.3 km
- Mon Repos — 10.8 km
- Rietrivier — 11.3 km
- Heuningneskloof — 18.7 km
- Jacobsdal — 19.4 km
- Michville — 20.0 km
Ritchie: clock, sun and surroundings
Sunrise reaches Ritchie at 5:31 AM, and the sun sets at 6:41 PM. Light lasts 13 h 10 min.
Time runs the same in Ritchie and in nearby Pelindaba and Mon Repos.
Mail delivery in Ritchie relies on 1 postal code.
Clocks in Ritchie are set by Africa/Johannesburg and read UTC+2. Daylight saving time: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Ritchie in?
- Ritchie is in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Does Ritchie keep the same offset year round, or does it use daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Ritchie: No.
- How late in the morning does the sun rise in Ritchie?
- It rises at 5:31 AM.