When is the SA Daily Lotto draw?

Every day, in the evening. Every result on this page carries its own SAST draw time, taken in South African time rather than UTC, because these are all evening draws and a UTC date puts them on the wrong day.

How many numbers does SA Daily Lotto draw?

5 from 1 to 36, with no bonus ball. Every row is checked against that shape before it is stored and anything that does not match is rejected rather than published.

Where do these results come from?

From the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms, which sits one step closer to the draw than a results website copying another results website.

Are these results official?

They come from an operator settlement feed, not from Ithuba. That feed is what real money is settled against, so it is reliable, but this desk does not yet check it against Ithuba's own published result and therefore stores every row as unverified. For a prize claim, always check the official Ithuba result.

Can I bet on SA Daily Lotto instead of buying a ticket?

Yes. South African bookmakers offer it as a Lucky Numbers bet, a fixed-odds bet on the outcome of the draw rather than an entry into it. You are betting with the bookmaker and the payout is the bookmaker's to set, which is why it can differ from the lottery prize.

Daily Lotto results

The Daily Lotto results here come from the operator settlement feed rather than another results page copying one, and the draw runs every night of the year.

5 from 36 · drawn every day

Latest SA Daily Lotto result

Wednesday, 2 September 2026 · 21:00 SAST

347825

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How this page gets its numbers

SA Daily Lotto draws five numbers from 36 with no bonus ball, every single night. It is the only national draw with no rest day, which is why it is the one most often checked late.

The results are read from the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms. Every row is checked against the game's shape before it is stored, and the calendar date is taken in South African time rather than UTC, which matters here because every one of these draws is an evening draw.

Two limits, stated rather than hidden. There is no independent second source wired in yet, so these rows are single-sourced and stored unverified; Ithuba publishes the official result and checking against it is the next job. And the feed has no history endpoint, so this archive starts on Tuesday, 1 September 2026 and grows forward. It holds 1 SA Daily Lotto draw today, against about 216 needed before a hot-numbers table would mean anything, which is why there is not one on this page.

Betting SA Daily Lotto in South Africa

There are two different things people mean by playing SA Daily Lotto. Buying a ticket from Ithuba enters you into the draw and pays the advertised jackpot. Betting it with a licensed bookmaker as a Lucky Numbers bet does not enter you into anything: the bookmaker takes a fixed-odds bet on the outcome and pays its own published multiple, win or lose, whatever the lottery pays.

Both are legal and they are not the same product. This desk covers the second one, and has not yet measured what South African bookmakers pay on it, so it quotes no multiple here.

Where to bet the draws

SA Daily Lotto questions

When is the SA Daily Lotto draw?: Every day, in the evening. Every result on this page carries its own SAST draw time, taken in South African time rather than UTC, because these are all evening draws and a UTC date puts them on the wrong day.
How many numbers does SA Daily Lotto draw?: 5 from 1 to 36, with no bonus ball. Every row is checked against that shape before it is stored and anything that does not match is rejected rather than published.
Where do these results come from?: From the lottery operator backend that supplies South African betting platforms, which sits one step closer to the draw than a results website copying another results website.
Are these results official?: They come from an operator settlement feed, not from Ithuba. That feed is what real money is settled against, so it is reliable, but this desk does not yet check it against Ithuba's own published result and therefore stores every row as unverified. For a prize claim, always check the official Ithuba result.
Can I bet on SA Daily Lotto instead of buying a ticket?: Yes. South African bookmakers offer it as a Lucky Numbers bet, a fixed-odds bet on the outcome of the draw rather than an entry into it. You are betting with the bookmaker and the payout is the bookmaker's to set, which is why it can differ from the lottery prize.