Elevation of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Cape Town's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 5 m.

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Ground within 5 km

0 m – 963 m

Mean 128 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 963 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 283rd of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Cape Town

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cape Town; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 24 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 62 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Cape Town, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Peaks and passes near Cape Town

Table Mountain, peak at 1,085 m (3,560 ft), 4.3 km to the S — 1,057 m above the town.
Devil’s Peak, peak at 1,000 m (3,281 ft), 3.6 km to the SE — 972 m above the town.
Constantiaberg, peak at 927 m (3,041 ft), 14.7 km to the S — 899 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Cape Town is

Latitude -33.9248685, longitude 18.4240553. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cape Town's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 25 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.