OrkneySouth Africa
Current time in Orkney, South Africa
Sunday, 18 October 2026
South Africa Standard TimeUTC+02:00
⛶ Full-screen clockOrkney time at a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Location
- City in North West
- Time zone
Africa/Johannesburg- UTC offset now
UTC+02:00- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Orkney
- IANA zone
Africa/Johannesburg- UTC offset now
- UTC+02:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Orkney is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Orkney
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Saturday, 23 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Orkney
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Johannesburg, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Orkney
Location details for Orkney in North West, South Africa.
- Administrative area
- North West, South Africa
- Population
- 110,052
- Coordinates
- 26.9802° S, 26.6727° E. The elevation is 1,312 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Orkney
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Orkney. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- KlerksdorpNorth West, South Africa14 km north
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - StilfonteinNorth West, South Africa18 km northeast
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - HartbeesfonteinNorth West, South Africa35 km northwest
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - PotchefstroomNorth West, South Africa52 km northeast
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - LeeudoringstadNorth West, South Africa52 km southwest
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time - OttosdalNorth West, South Africa69 km west
Africa/JohannesburgSame local time
Sources for Orkney time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.