South Africa game servers and ping test

South Africa at a glance

Cities the publishers give: Johannesburg
Data center countries: South Africa
Test point: Cape Town
Games that name it: 4 of 28, 3 by its own name or city
From our server in Germany: 154 ms, Poor (data center, median run)
Region record checked: October 15, 2026

Games that name South Africa

3 games name South Africa by their own label or city. 1 more game lists an area that the test reads on this region alone, without a city.

Games whose server lists name South Africa, with the label and city each publisher gives
Game	Name in the game	City	How our test reads it
Dota 2	South Africa	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Johannesburg	This region, by its own name or city
Rainbow Six Siege	South Africa North	Not published	South Africa North, read on this region's test point, city not published
Rocket League	South Africa	Not published	This region, by its own name or city

Cities the publishers give for South Africa

1 city in all, each named in at least one game's own server list.

Cities for South Africa and the games whose lists name each one
City	Named in these game lists
Johannesburg	EA SPORTS FC 26

The South Africa test point

Cape Town: Amazon Web Services region Africa (Cape Town). The test sends small HTTPS requests to dynamodb.af-south-1.amazonaws.com and times each answer.

Cape Town stands in for Johannesburg, so a figure here is a close guide to those cities, not their own.

Terms: Amazon's Acceptable Use Policy, read October 15, 2026. How the test uses every test point is on the method page, and the full list is on the data page.

South Africa from our server in Germany

Our own server in a German data center timed this test point every 30 minutes from October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026, 91 runs with command line requests. The median run read 154 ms to Cape Town: Poor on our bands. That is one data center line in Germany, not a home line, and your verdict never uses it. Another network in the same country can read a region tens of milliseconds faster or slower.

Reference times to South Africa from a data center in Germany, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026
Test point	Median run	Middle half of runs	Slowest run	Typical spread	Runs
Cape Town	154 ms	151 ms to 155 ms	156 ms	0.2 ms	91

South Africa from your own line

The figures above are from a data center. Run the test with South Africa picked as the region you play on, and the result reads your line to it next to every other region.

Test your ping to South Africa

South Africa questions

Which games have servers in South Africa?

Dota 2, EA SPORTS FC 26 and Rocket League name South Africa in their own server lists. Rainbow Six Siege lists an area that includes it, without a city.

Where is the South Africa test point?

In the Amazon Web Services region Africa (Cape Town). Cape Town stands in for Johannesburg. It is not a game server: the test times it because it sits near the servers the publishers name.

What does our server in Germany read to South Africa?

From our server in a German data center, the median of 91 runs to Cape Town was 154 ms, Poor on our bands, with half the runs between 151 ms and 155 ms. That is one data center line: another network can read South Africa tens of milliseconds faster or slower, and a home line adds its own delay, so run the test for your figure.

Sources

GetSDRConfig, Steam Datagram Relay network configuration for app 730 (Counter-Strike 2), Valve Steam Web API, official page, read October 15, 2026
Amazon DynamoDB endpoints and quotas, AWS General Reference, provider documentation, read October 15, 2026
AWS Acceptable Use Policy (last updated July 1, 2021), provider terms, read October 15, 2026
Reference times: our own stability probe on a server in a German data center, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026