Car hire in Centurion

Centurion has a working cluster of branches serving the office parks, Highveld Technopark and the Gautrain station area. It is a business market, so weekday hours are good and weekend cover is limited.

The Gautrain station makes Centurion genuinely convenient. Take the train from OR Tambo, change at Marlboro for the Pretoria line, and collect from a branch near the station.

If your dates are tight or you want a specific vehicle group, OR Tambo remains the deeper market at about 45 minutes away.

Other brands on this site serve the area from Pretoria, Midrand or OR Tambo rather than from Centurion itself. Check availability for your dates instead of assuming a local counter.

Centurion sits inside the Gauteng market, so the underlying pricing is competitive even where the local branch count is modest.

These figures come from Discover Cars and Cheapflights. Most are national, not Centurion quotes. A "from" price is the cheapest car found on the day; an average includes bigger cars and longer rentals, which is why the two sites differ so much. Discover Cars puts December at about R474 a day against about R387 in September, so holiday dates cost more.

Corporate and monthly hire is a big part of the demand here. If you need a car for a month or more, ask for a long term rate rather than multiplying the daily rate, because the two are quoted differently.

The N1 Ben Schoeman is the defining road. Southbound is slow in the morning, northbound is slow in the afternoon, and an off peak twenty minute trip can easily triple. The R21 to OR Tambo and the N14 towards Krugersdorp are the other main routes.

Gauteng's urban e-toll gantries stopped billing in 2024, so the freeways here are not tolled. Conventional toll plazas apply on the N1 further north and the N4 east.

Parking is easy. Centurion Mall and the office parks have large parkades, and street parking in the older parts of town is straightforward.

As elsewhere in Gauteng, keep valuables out of sight, lock the doors in slow traffic, and treat dark intersections during load shedding as four way stops.

Approximate one way driving times in normal traffic:

Add substantially to anything crossing the Ben Schoeman during the peaks.

A sedan or hatchback is right for Centurion and everything around it. Roads are good, parking bays are generous and there is no local reason to go bigger.

Bakkies and larger vehicles are worth considering only for moving goods or for bushveld trips where the last stretch is gravel, in which case check the unsurfaced road clause in your agreement.

For long stays, ask about monthly rates and about who is covered as an additional driver, since corporate hires here often involve more than one person behind the wheel.