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Cape Town. Photo: lumoplank, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Cape Town

Surf, sailing, dive and climbing town · South Africa

Score a trip to Cape Town

Surf, sailing, dive and climbing, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 397 places

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397 places to stay within 2 km, 1 of them campsites.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 397 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 34 places in 4 sports

Surf · this week

All 25 surf spots
  • Sewers · about 10 min by car

    34 out of 100
  • Cannonball Reef · about 15 min by car

    32 out of 100
  • Milton Pool left · about 10 min by car

    32 out of 100
  • Solly's · about 10 min by car

    32 out of 100
  • 1st Bank · about 10 min by car

    31 out of 100
  • Cherry Rock · about 10 min by car

    31 out of 100
  • Gasworks · about 10 min by car

    31 out of 100
  • Gunties · about 10 min by car

    31 out of 100
  • Queens · about 10 min by car

    31 out of 100
  • Rocklands · about 10 min by car

    30 out of 100
  • Lagoon Mouth · about 15 min by car

    26 out of 100
  • Off The Wall · about 10 min by car

    24 out of 100
  • Dumps · about 15 min by car

    23 out of 100
  • Dolose point · about 10 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Railways · about 15 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • The Wedge · about 10 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Thermopylae · about 10 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score

Sailing · this week

Dive · this week

Climbing · this week

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Cape Town; a spot more than 5 km away stays here because Cape Town is the nearest town with beds.

Places to eat

6 near Cape Town

Places to eat near Cape Town

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 5 km from Cape Town.

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Photos of Cape Town

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Photo: Snazzledizzle, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Photo: Joe Ross from Lansing, Michigan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Cape Town

where it is, what is near

Cape Town is a town in Western Cape, South Africa.

From Cape Town you can reach 25 surf spots, 2 sailing spots, 6 dive sites and 1 climbing area, 5 of the surf spots more than 5 km away.

The nearest is Two Oceans Aquarium, a dive site 2.3 km from the centre.

Overture lists 397 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is Cape Town International Airport (CPT), 18 km away.

In Western Cape · South Africa

  • 397 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Cape Town International Airport (CPT), 18 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).