Richards Bay

02 · South Africa

Richards Bay is a mid-sized city of South Africa, with a population of around 252k. This page covers the essentials — climate, currency, transit links — so you can plan a stop here without digging through a guidebook.

Population

252k

Timezone

Africa/Johannesburg

Currency

ZAR

Coordinates

-28.783, 32.038

🗺 Map 📖 Wikipedia

Nearest airports

RCB — Richards Bay Airport (7 km) DUR — King Shaka International Airport (128 km) MZQ — Mkuze Airport (129 km)

Other cities in South Africa

Johannesburg Cape Town Durban Pretoria Soweto Gqeberha Soshanguve Pietermaritzburg Evaton Benoni

City data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).