A rocky headland with a small white beach in the cove below and surf breaking along the Atlantic shore

region field guide

Cape Peninsula

A meeting place of granite coves, cold ocean water, protected habitats and exposed Atlantic and False Bay coasts.

Photo: Rosino / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Water temperature, wind and swell differ sharply around the peninsula; check the specific beach and day.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Road access is straightforward, but protected attractions may have controlled entrances and conservation fees.

The coast itself

Cape Peninsula in photographs

The coastline as it actually looks, from the places named on this page.

Rocky tidal shoreline at Simon's Town with mountains rising across False Bay
Simon's Town, False Bay, South AfricaThe False Bay shoreline at Simon's Town, beside the Boulders Beach boardwalk.Photo: Bernard DUPONT / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
Long pale beach curving toward a headland, seen from a high coastal road above Noordhoek
Noordhoek Beach, Cape Peninsula, South AfricaNoordhoek's long Atlantic beach seen from Chapman's Peak Drive on the peninsula's western side.Photo: Bernard DUPONT / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗

Where and when

Position, and the shape of the year.

Both panels are drawn from facts the atlas holds: recorded coordinates and the latitude itself. Neither is a forecast.

Locator map of Cape Peninsula: sourced beach coordinates around -34.197, 18.451, with the destination centre marked
50 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 865 km wide, plotted server-side from the atlas index over Natural Earth land outlines (public domain). The marked point is the coordinate in this record; every other mark is a beach record you can open from the directory.
Hours between sunrise and sunset, computed from latitude -34.197 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for Cape Peninsula. Longest around Dec (14h 18m), shortest around Jun (9h 42m) — a 4.6-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in Cape Peninsula

Coverage grows by reviewed entities, not automatically generated locality pages.

Wide view of Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, Cape Peninsula.
Africa

Boulders Beach

Simon’s Town · South Africa

Sand
Pale beige
Water
Cool False Bay water; conditions vary

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

35 beach records sit within 60 km of this coordinate. The nearest are listed below with their distance; most carry position and provenance only, and say so on the page.

  1. Seaforth BeachWestern Cape, South Africa0.3 km
  2. Windmill BeachWestern Cape, South Africa0.7 km
  3. Long BeachWestern Cape, South Africa2.8 km
  4. Stoney BeachWestern Cape, South Africa3.1 km
  5. Shelly BeachWestern Cape, South Africa3.8 km
  6. Glencairn BeachWestern Cape, South Africa4.5 km
  7. VishoekstrandWestern Cape, South Africa7.3 km
  8. Middle BeachWestern Cape, South Africa8.2 km
  9. Danger BeachWestern Cape, South Africa8.4 km
  10. Muizenberg BeachCape Town, South Africa10.1 km
  11. West BeachWestern Cape, South Africa10.3 km
  12. East BeachWestern Cape, South Africa10.9 km
  13. Sunrise BeachWestern Cape, South Africa11.2 km
  14. BokramstrandWestern Cape, South Africa12.8 km
  15. Long BeachWestern Cape, South Africa12.9 km
  16. Noordhoek BeachWestern Cape, South Africa12.9 km
  17. Maclear BeachWestern Cape, South Africa17.6 km
  18. DiasstrandWestern Cape, South Africa17.8 km
  19. Camps Bay BeachCape Town, South Africa28.2 km
  20. Macassar BeachWestern Cape, South Africa29.8 km
  21. Queens BeachWestern Cape, South Africa31.3 km
  22. Sunset BeachWestern Cape, South Africa31.5 km
  23. HarmoniestrandWestern Cape, South Africa36.9 km
  24. Glen BeachWestern Cape, South Africa37.3 km
  25. BloubergstrandWestern Cape, South Africa44.6 km
  26. Shelly BeachWestern Cape, South Africa45.1 km
  27. Van RiebeeckstrandWestern Cape, South Africa55.3 km
  28. SilverstroomstrandWestern Cape, South Africa69.0 km
  29. Grotto BeachWestern Cape, South Africa81.1 km
  30. Die PlaatWestern Cape, South Africa92.3 km
  31. Klipgat se PlaatWestern Cape, South Africa93.4 km
  32. Die GruisWestern Cape, South Africa104.3 km
  33. Pearly BeachWestern Cape, South Africa111.7 km
  34. Sixteen Mile BeachWestern Cape, South Africa117.8 km

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Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Boulders Penguin ColonySouth African National Parks ↗

    Primary park authority for access and protected African penguin context.