Beaufort West in numbers
- Coordinates
- -32.3567, 22.5830
- Population
- 44 737
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 409 km away
What time is it in Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa
This page shows the time as it is now in Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Beaufort West, South Africa
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Beaufort West
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Beaufort West.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:49 AM Solar noon 12:16 PM Sunset 6:44 PM Daylight 12 h 55 min Night 11 h 05 min Civil twilight 5:23 AM – 7:09 PM
Weather in Beaufort West right now
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Beaufort West and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6940
- 6950
- 6970
- 6973
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 Western Cape
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
- Nieuveld Park — 0.8 km
- Central Karoo District Municipality — 46.1 km
- Nelspoort — 47.8 km
- Restvale — 49.9 km
- Leeu-Gamka — 73.2 km
- Bitterwater — 73.8 km
Local time details for Beaufort West
The sun comes up over Beaufort West at 5:49 AM today and drops below the horizon at 6:44 PM. That is 12 h 55 min between the two.
Nothing changes on the clock between Beaufort West and neighbouring Nieuveld Park or Central Karoo District Municipality.
4 postal codes are in use across Beaufort West.
The clock in Beaufort West is set to Africa/Johannesburg, offset UTC+2. Daylight saving time in use: No.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Beaufort West?
- Enter Africa/Johannesburg as the time zone for Beaufort West; its offset is +2.
- Does Beaufort West observe daylight saving time?
- No.
- When does the sun disappear in Beaufort West?
- It disappears at 6:44 PM.