The Lakes in numbers
- Coordinates
- -34.1200, 18.3785
- Region
- Western Cape
- Country
- South Africa, Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town — 32 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in The Lakes, Western Cape, South Africa
This page displays how late it is in The Lakes, Western Cape, South Africa, in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone (+2).
The Lakes, South Africa
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
Local time in The Lakes
UTC+2 · no daylight saving time
The Lakes keeps Africa/Johannesburg clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:46 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 7:16 PM Daylight 13 h 30 min Night 10 h 30 min Civil twilight 5:19 AM – 7:43 PM
Weather in The Lakes right now
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The Lakes and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 7990 Fish Hoek — 5.3 km away
- 7945 Lakeside — 7.7 km away
- 7946 Muizenberg — 8.1 km away
- 7995 Fish Hoek — 8.7 km away
- 7975 Simonstad — 8.7 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 The Lakes
- The Lakes Minnesota, United States
- The Lakes Western Australia, Australia
- The Lakes South Australia, Australia
- The Lakes England, United Kingdom
- The Lakes Virginia, United States
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
- Loch Venus — 0.6 km
- Harmony — 0.6 km
- Chemory — 0.6 km
- Outside — 1.4 km
- Sunnycroft — 1.5 km
- Sunnyacres — 1.5 km
Local time details for The Lakes
Time runs the same in The Lakes and in nearby Loch Venus and Harmony.
Postal numbering in The Lakes covers 5 codes.
The Lakes observes Africa/Johannesburg time, currently expressed as UTC+2. Daylight saving time here: No.
Morning light reaches The Lakes at 5:46 AM, and the sun sets at 7:16 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 13 h 30 min.
Questions and answers
- Where does The Lakes fall in terms of time zones?
- In terms of time zones, The Lakes falls within Africa/Johannesburg, with an offset of +2.
- Is daylight saving time in force in The Lakes?
- Daylight saving in The Lakes: No.
- Can you tell me the sunset time in The Lakes?
- In The Lakes the sun sets at 7:16 PM.