Upington in numbers
- Coordinates
- -28.4478, 21.2561
- Population
- 71 373
- Region
- Northern Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 656 km away
What time is it in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa
Local time in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa is shown on this page, based on the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Upington, South Africa
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Upington
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Upington.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:42 AM Solar noon 12:20 PM Sunset 6:57 PM Daylight 13 h 15 min Night 10 h 45 min Civil twilight 5:17 AM – 7:22 PM
Weather in Upington right now
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Upington and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 8801
- 8805
- 8806
- 8807
- 8808
- 8809
- 8810
- 8813
- 8815
- 8816
- 8818
- 8820
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
- De Aar 32 318
- Postmasburg 30 089
- Pampierstad 21 707
- Warrenton 17 946
- Colesberg 12 423
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
- Nuwerus NC — 3.3 km
- Paballelo — 4.2 km
- Progress — 4.3 km
- Rosedale Ext. 2 — 6.0 km
- Straussburg — 7.5 km
- Swartkop — 9.4 km
About the time in Upington
Upington sees first light at 5:42 AM today and the sun sets at 6:57 PM. Daylight totals 13 h 15 min.
Neighbouring Nuwerus NC and Paballelo sit in the same time as Upington.
Postal numbering in Upington covers 12 codes.
Upington stands in Africa/Johannesburg, an offset of UTC+2 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone applies in Upington?
- In Upington, the applicable time zone is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Do people in Upington set their clocks forward in spring?
- Daylight saving in Upington: No.
- Tell me the sunrise hour in Upington.
- The sunrise hour is 5:42 AM.