Administrative division(s):

• Level 1: KwaZulu-Natal
• Level 2: uThungulu District Municipality
• Level 3: uMhlathuze

Current local time in Richards Bay:

01:58 PM, Saturday
Difference from your time zone: hours

Richards Bay on map:^[1]

Richards Bay GPS coordinates^[2]

28° 46' 58.836" South, 32° 2' 15.648" East

Map corner	latitude	longitude
Upper-left	-28.16494°,	31.33456°
Center:	-28.78301°,	32.03768°
Lower-right:	-29.39743°,	32.74081°
Map W x H:	137×137 km	= 85.1×85.1mi

max Lat:	-22.34881°   ⇑53.4% North
Richards Bay:	-28.78301°
min Lat:	⇓46.6% South -34.66739°

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min Long	Richards Bay	max Long
16.8697°	32.03768°	32.26762°
W 98.5%⇐		⇒1.5% E

Elevation

Elevation of Richards Bay is 9 m = 30 ft, and this is 960.6 m = 3152 ft below average elevation for this country.

Max E:	1873 m = 6145 ft	99.1%
Avg.	969.6 m = 3181 ft
Richards Bay	9 m = 30 ft
Min E:	7 m = 23 ft	0.9%

See also: Richards Bay elevation on elevation.city.

Geographical zone

Richards Bay is located in South temperate zone (between Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle). Distance of this Southern Tropic circle is 594.5 km =369.4 mi to North.

Distance of	km	miles	from Richards Bay
Equator	3200.4	1988.6	to North
Tropic Capricorn	594.5	369.4	to North
Antarctic Circle	4200.8	2610.3	to South
South Pole	6806.7	4229.5	to South

Nearby cities:

15 places around Richards Bay: (largest is in red/bold)

• Ballito 116 km =72.1 mi, 223°
• Empangeni 14.3 km =8.9 mi, 279°
• Eshowe 56.5 km =35.1 mi, 258°
• Hlabisa 72.6 km =45.1 mi, 347°
• Hluhluwe 87.9 km =54.6 mi, 14°
• KwaDukuza 94.7 km =58.8 mi, 230°
• KwaMbonambi 21.2 km =13.2 mi, 13°
• Mandeni 72.9 km =45.3 mi, 236°
• Melmoth 66.1 km =41.1 mi, 289°
• Mtubatuba 43.1 km =26.8 mi, 19°
• Nkandla 94.1 km =58.5 mi, 281°
• Nongoma 104.3 km =64.8 mi, 338°
• Sundumbili 73.5 km =45.7 mi, 237°
• Ulundi 78.5 km =48.8 mi, 309°
• eSikhaleni 16.6 km =10.3 mi, 233°

In other languages:

• In Russian: Ричардс-Бей