Cape Town, South Africa

Table Mountain

The rotating cabin turns everyone's five-minute ride into a 360-degree sweep of city, ocean and the flat-topped mountain itself.

Best forMountain
Approx. flying time~19h 45m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportCape Town (CPT)

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About this place

Up top, easy paths wander between sandstone outcrops with dassies — improbable rodent cousins of the elephant — posing on the rocks. The mountain makes its own weather: if the morning is clear, drop everything and go, because the 'tablecloth' cloud can shut the cableway by afternoon.

Featured in Ten epic cable-car days with zero hiking required

When to go

Daytime highs run from about 9°C in August to 16°C in January. Driest in January and February; wettest in July, with rain on about 12 days.

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August9° · rain 10 daysCold with rain most weeks.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis).

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