Mossel Bay in numbers
- Coordinates
- -34.1831, 22.1460
- Population
- 78 940
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 329 km away
What time is it in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
Find out what time it is now in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa — the local clock runs on Africa/Johannesburg (+2).
Mossel Bay, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Mossel Bay
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Mossel Bay.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:50 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 6:46 PM Daylight 12 h 56 min Night 11 h 04 min Civil twilight 5:24 AM – 7:12 PM
Weather in Mossel Bay right now
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Mossel Bay and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6501
- 6503
- 6504
- 6505
- 6506
- 6507
- 6510
- 6511
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
- Linkside — 0.6 km
- Da Nova — 1.2 km
- New Sunnyside — 1.4 km
- Heiderand — 3.3 km
- D’Almeida — 3.7 km
- Diasstrand — 4.8 km
Local time details for Mossel Bay
Neighbours of Mossel Bay such as Linkside and Da Nova share its clock.
There are 8 postal code zones in Mossel Bay.
The zone covering Mossel Bay is called Africa/Johannesburg and stands at UTC+2. Seasonal clock changes apply: No.
Today's times for Mossel Bay: the sun is up at 5:50 AM and down at 6:46 PM. That means 12 h 56 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What time zone applies in Mossel Bay?
- In Mossel Bay, the applicable time zone is Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Is daylight saving time in force in Mossel Bay?
- Daylight saving in Mossel Bay: No.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Mossel Bay.
- The sunset hour is 6:46 PM.