Observatory in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.9361, 18.4679
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 13 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa
This page keeps the current time in Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa, according to the Africa/Johannesburg zone (+2).
Observatory, South Africa
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Observatory
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Observatory, Western Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:03 AM Solar noon 12:33 PM Sunset 7:02 PM Daylight 12 h 58 min Night 11 h 02 min Civil twilight 5:38 AM – 7:27 PM
Weather in Observatory right now
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Observatory and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 7700 Mowbray — 0.3 km away
- 7451 Maitland — 3.0 km away
- 7785 Mitchellsplain — 3.1 km away
- 7405 Maitland — 3.5 km away
- 7708 Nuweland — 3.7 km away
- 7769 Gatesville — 3.7 km away
- 7767 Gatesville — 3.7 km away
- 7763 Gatesville — 3.7 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 Observatory
- Observatory Saint George Parish, Grenada
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
- Wynberg Hill — 5.5 km
- Fernwood — 5.5 km
- Lansdowne — 6.3 km
- Bishopscourt — 6.5 km
- Kenilworth — 6.6 km
- Glen Dirk — 6.9 km
Time and daylight in Observatory
The sun is up at 6:03 AM in Observatory and down again at 7:02 PM. Between those times there are 12 h 58 min of daylight.
Both Wynberg Hill and Fernwood are near Observatory and keep its time.
8 postal codes are current for Observatory.
The clock in Observatory is set to Africa/Johannesburg, offset UTC+2. Daylight saving time in use: No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Observatory?
- Time in Observatory follows the Africa/Johannesburg time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Is summer time in effect in Observatory at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Observatory: No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Observatory — what times?
- 6:03 AM and 7:02 PM.