Newtown in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.2833, 19.1667
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 86 km away
- Same name
- 194 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Newtown, Western Cape, South Africa
Find out what time it is now in Newtown, Western Cape, South Africa — the local clock runs on Africa/Johannesburg (+2).
Newtown, South Africa
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Newtown
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Newtown, Western Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:03 AM Solar noon 12:30 PM Sunset 6:57 PM Daylight 12 h 55 min Night 11 h 05 min Civil twilight 5:37 AM – 7:23 PM
Weather in Newtown right now
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Newtown and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6820 Western Cape — 1.6 km away
- 6821 Tulbagh — 1.6 km away
- 7702 Rondebosch — 8.1 km away
- 7707 Rondebosch — 8.1 km away
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
Other places named Newtown
- Newtown New South Wales, Australia
- Newtown Wales, United Kingdom
- Newtown Wellington Region, New Zealand
- Newtown Victoria, Australia
- Newtown Queensland, Australia
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
- Tulbagh — 2.4 km
- Tulbaghweg — 7.6 km
- Ons Rust — 11.3 km
- Gouda — 11.9 km
- Prince Alfred Hamlet — 14.9 km
- Wolseley — 14.9 km
Time and daylight in Newtown
The sky over Newtown lightens at 6:03 AM and the sun sets at 6:57 PM. Daylight runs for 12 h 55 min today.
Both Tulbagh and Tulbaghweg are near Newtown and keep its time.
Newtown works with 4 postal codes.
Newtown reads its time from Africa/Johannesburg, placed at UTC+2. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Newtown based on?
- The clock in Newtown is based on Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does the local schedule in Newtown include a clock change?
- No.
- What time does the day start in Newtown?
- The sun rises at 6:03 AM.