🌆 Pretoria

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Quick facts

Pretoria is in South Africa, a country in Africa. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Pretoria’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

Where Pretoria sits on the Earth

At 25.75° south of the equator, Pretoria is about 2,863 km from the equator itself and 7,144 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the subtropics, where summers run hot and how mild the winter feels depends heavily on the nearest sea. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.

Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 64.3° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,508 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Pretoria sees its longest day lasts about 13.6 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.4.

Nearest cities on our list: Johannesburg (52 km to the south-southwest), Gaborone (260 km to the west-northwest), Maputo (439.9 km to the east), Durban (535 km to the south-southeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.

The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Pretoria emerges at 25.75°N, 151.81°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Honolulu, about 789.8 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.

More cities in South Africa

Cape Town · Johannesburg · Durban.

Coordinates are an approximate city centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.