Swellendam in numbers
- Coordinates
- -34.0369, 20.5089
- Population
- 20 993
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 177 km away
The current local time in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa is displayed here for the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
Swellendam, South Africa
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in Swellendam
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
Swellendam keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
Sunrise 5:32 AM Solar noon 12:23 PM Sunset 7:14 PM Daylight 13 h 43 min Night 10 h 17 min Civil twilight 5:05 AM – 7:41 PM
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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.
Addresses in Swellendam fall under 3 postal codes.
Hours in Swellendam are kept by Africa/Johannesburg, standing at UTC+2. Daylight saving observed: No.
The sun shows itself over Swellendam at 5:32 AM and sets at 7:14 PM today. That is 13 h 43 min of light.
Neighbouring Buffeljagsrivier and Bakklysdrift sit in the same time as Swellendam.