Nowadays, Pietersburg is is a modern city. The city on the Sterkloop River is the service and trading centre for the surrounding rural areas of the Limpopo Province.Pietersburg's traffic links are excellent. The town lies halfway between Gauteng (300 km) and Zimbabwe (200 km) on the N1 freeway. A modern airport binds it into the airlink net of SAA (South African Airlines).
Pietersburg offers various educational institutions, colleges, technikons and the University of the North.Pietersburg lies on 1312 m altitude and has a pleasant climate with temperatures averaging 27 degrees in summer and 20 degrees in winter. It only rains in summer (400 - 600 mm precipitation annually).

One can relax in the municipal Pietersburg Nature Reserve, a huge nature park of 3,200 hectares with a lot of game and rich birdlife. Another attraction is the Bakone Malapa Open-Air Museum, 9 kilometres south of the town centre. It is a "living museum", impressively demonstrating the history and culture of the Sotho people in the north.