South Africa summit
Table Mountain
You can see 204 km from here, looking north.
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 204 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.
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).
- 204 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 9%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 34Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,063 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 34 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.
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.
- Jansouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Novwest12 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset73%
- 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
Table Mountain.
Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
Table Mountain is a summit in South Africa, 1,063 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 204 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 9% of the horizon.
34 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Du Toits Peak (1,995 m), 75 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Orange Kloof Tented Campcampsite · 5.1 km · 2 within 10 km
- The Orangeryplace to stay · 2.7 km · 326 within 10 km
- Newlandsnearest town · 3.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NewlandsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Cape Town International Airport (CPT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at CPT airport (Cape Town)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 45other viewpoints within 5 kmOld Cableway, Kloof Corner, Bel Ombre and 42 more
- 19named peaks within 5 kmLion's Head, Table Mountain (Maclear's beacon), Fernwood Peak and 16 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmLower Cable Station, Upper Cable Station
- 28marked trails within 3 kmContour Path, Platteklip Gorge, Diagonal Route and 25 more
- 57shelters and huts within 5 kmMCSA Table Mountain Hut, CPMC Hut, The People's Trail Hut and 54 more
- 40car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmTable Mountain Aerial Cableway, Platteklip Visitor Information Centre and 2 more
- 17restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmOrange Kloof Tented Camp, Parkhaus
- 326places to stay within 10 kmThe Orangery, Ashanti Travel Centre, Townhouse Hotel and 323 more
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 Table Mountain, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas54 mountains within 25 km
Coastya8 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Table Mountain
South Africa
- 87Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 34Peaks in view
- 1,063 mAltitude
Cape Fold Belt
South Africa · 338 km
- 61Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 998 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q213360) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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