Strand in numbers
- Coordinates
- -34.1069, 18.8275
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 32 km away
- Same name
- 44 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Strand, Western Cape, South Africa
This is the current time in Strand, Western Cape, South Africa, shown for the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Strand, South Africa
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Strand
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Strand, Western Cape.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:39 AM Solar noon 12:30 PM Sunset 7:20 PM Daylight 13 h 41 min Night 10 h 19 min Civil twilight 5:12 AM – 7:47 PM
Weather in Strand right now
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Strand and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 7140
- 7144
- 7151
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 Strand
- Strand Rogaland, Norway
- Strand Nordland, Norway
- Strand Iowa, United States
- Strand Saxony, Germany
- Strand Uusimaa, Finland
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
- Weltevreden — 2.3 km
- Nomzamo — 2.4 km
- Somerset West — 2.6 km
- Lwandle — 3.7 km
- Riverside — 6.2 km
- Vergelegen — 6.5 km
Time and daylight in Strand
Strand runs on Africa/Johannesburg, which sits UTC+2 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
The sun comes up over Strand at 5:39 AM today and drops below the horizon at 7:20 PM. That is 13 h 41 min between the two.
Weltevreden and Nomzamo, both nearby, hold the same time as Strand.
The area of Strand is divided into 3 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Does Strand use the Africa/Johannesburg time zone?
- Yes, Strand uses Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Does the time in Strand shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- Is there a set time for sunset in Strand?
- Today the sun sets at 7:20 PM.