The species occurs in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, where they occur in the North-West Province, Northern Cape, into the Great Namaqualand area, through the Little Namaqualand into the Western Cape and Karoo areas in the eastern-central parts of the country. There are seemingly isolated populations in Limpopo Province. There are few records of the spotted sand lizard from Botswana, possibly due to poor sampling and there are no known records from Zimbabwe or Mozambique.