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Cape Fold Belt

You can see 96 km from here, looking south-west.

61Viewyas Score

Summit

Calculating the panorama…

Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.

The view

Up to 96 km away.

Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.

61out of 100

Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).

  • 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 998 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 7 peaks you can name from here

From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.

Kougaberge1,757 m · 133 km · eastKapp se Bakenpiek1,344 m · 64 km · south-eastSnyganskop1,096 m · 38 km · southSpitskop935 m · 79 km · south-westLangekloof Peak946 m · 86 km · south-westKareekop1,272 m · 96 km · south-west

From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.

The sun

The best sunsets are from December to March.

When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.

  1. Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  2. Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  3. Marwest40 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  4. Aprnorth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  5. Maynorth-west94 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  6. Junnorth-west100 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  7. Julnorth-west98 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  8. Augnorth-west90 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  9. Sepwest54 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  10. Octwest22 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  11. Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  12. Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  • Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
  • Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
  • %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).

The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.

The place

Cape Fold Belt.

Late Paleozoic fold and thrust belt in southwestern South Africa

Cape Fold Belt is a summit in South Africa, 998 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking south-west.

7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Langekloof Peak (946 m), 86 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from December to March.

Route 62 between Montagu and Ashton - panoramio
Hendrik van den Berg · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Cape Fold BeltGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Cape Fold BeltBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GRJ airport (George)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Cape Fold Belt seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmSpitskop, Andriesberg
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmSwartberg Backpackers
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

What you see from Cape Fold Belt, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas38 mountains within 25 km
Cape Fold Belt · this placeCape Fold Belt · 0.3 kmWaboomsberg · 5.1 kmHuis se Hoogte · 7.5 kmDrosterskraal se Kop · 9.3 kmWolwekop · 12 kmVensterkop · 19 kmSwartkop · 24 kmRooikoppe · 25 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Boomplaas Cave · 15 kmCango Caves · 20 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

1 Fan Aloe trees in Western Cape mountains - South Africa
Abu Shawka · CC0
Cape Town 2012 05 13 0271 (7179911151)
Harvey Barrison from Massapequa, NY, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bosluiskloof01
Vdiest at English Wikipedia · Public domain

Other viewpoints nearby.

Cape Fold Belt

South Africa

  • 61Viewyas Score
  • 96 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 998 mAltitude

Table Mountain

South Africa · 338 km

  • 87Viewyas Score
  • 204 kmFarthest ridge
  • 34Peaks in view
  • 1,063 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2334182) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Cavernyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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