Cape Town City Guide
Cape Town Map: Every Sight, Free Spot and Named Place We Cover
This Cape Town map holds every place the Cape Town city guide covers inside the city and down the peninsula — the paid sights with their international adult fares, the free viewpoints and beaches, the markets and wine estate, and the five visitor neighbourhoods. Every pin links to the page that explains it and to Google Maps for directions. Day-trip destinations — the Winelands, whales, sharks and flowers — sit 45 minutes to three hours out and live on their own pages.
Quick answer How the city is laid out, and which pins need a booking
Cape Town's sights sit in three clusters on this map: the City Bowl and V&A Waterfront (walkable, most museums), the Atlantic seaboard (promenade, Clifton, Camps Bay), and the peninsula run south to Boulders Beach and Cape Point, about an hour's drive. Only one pin sells out: Robben Island, $37.28 (R600).
Key takeaways
- The cable car pin is the lower station on Tafelberg Road — buy the $29.50 (R475) online ticket and it stays valid 7 days, which beats the wind forecast.
- Green pins cost nothing — nine of the city's best places are free, the promenade and Lion's Head among them.
- The peninsula pins (penguins, Cape Point, Chapman's Peak) chain into one loop — a full-day tour with pickup runs it without a rental car.
The Map
Numbered pins, filterable by category. The list below the map is the same set in text, grouped the same way — every place links to its own page on this site and to Google Maps for directions. Fares are the international adult prices read from the official ticket sites in Q3 2026; South African rates are lower at the SANParks gates.
Sights & museums 11 pins
- Table Mountain Cableway (lower station)$29.50 (R475) onlineCheck Availability
- Robben Island ferry (Nelson Mandela Gateway)$37.28 (R600)Check Availability
- Boulders Beach penguin colony$15.22 (R245)
- Cape Point / Cape of Good Hope gate$32.00 (R515)Check Availability
- Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden$16.78 (R270)
- Zeitz MOCAA$16.46 (R265), under-18 freeCheck Availability
- Two Oceans Aquarium$17.40 (R280)
- Cape Wheel$17.09 (R275) non-SA
- Castle of Good Hope$3.11 (R50)
- District Six Museumprice in the booking widget
- Chapman's Peak Drive (toll plaza)$4.22 (R68) toll — check live status
Free 8 pins
- Lion's Head trailheadfree
- Signal Hill summitfree
- Sea Point Promenadefree
- Greenmarket Square & Company's Gardenfree
- Bo-Kaap (Wale Street)streets free; museum $6.21 (R100)Check Availability
- V&A Waterfrontentry free
- Muizenberg Beachfree
- Hout Bay harbourfree; seal cruise $8.08 (R130)
Markets & wine 3 pins
- Oranjezicht City Farm Marketfree entry, Sat & Sun mornings
- Groot Constantiatasting $8.08 (R130)
- Kalk Bay harbourfree; lunch is the spend
Neighbourhoods 5 pins
Pin prices read in Q3 2026 from each venue's official site; the SANParks tariff card runs to 31 October 2026. Chapman's Peak closes for rockfall — check the live status before routing over it.
Reserved Entry for the Pins That Need a Slot
Four cards cover the bookings that actually sell out or save queue time; prices are the platform's listed figures in Q3 2026. Everything else on the map takes walk-ups.
from $93.45
Cape Town: Robben Island Ferry Ticket and Guided Prison Tour
Return ferry and museum tour with a former political prisoner as prison guide; tickets arrive by WhatsApp or email. Sold to international travellers only, and cancellation closes 3 days out — earlier than most.
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from $62.05
Cape Town: Table Mountain Cable Car Ticket
Return cableway ticket resold by a local agent: the GetYourGuide voucher is NOT the ticket — a barcoded ticket arrives by WhatsApp/email and must be confirmed. Standard access, no transport.
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from $40.04
From Cape Town: Cape Point & Boulders Beach Full-Day Tour
The budget full-day peninsula tour: 10 hours, hotel pickup and an air-conditioned minivan for around $40 — because every entry fee (Boulders R245, Cape of Good Hope R515) is paid separately on the day.
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from $17
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Fast-Track Zeitz MOCAA
Fast-track ticket to Africa's biggest contemporary-art museum in the converted grain silo, flexible on date until scanned. African citizens enter free on Wednesdays 10:00-13:00 — this ticket is for everyone else.
Check AvailabilityPrices, ratings and details are the platform's own, checked in Q3 2026; dollar figures are the listed prices — the platform bills in your account's currency.
Cape Town Map: Questions
Is Cape Town walkable?
The City Bowl cluster on this map is — Company's Garden, the Castle, District Six Museum, Bo-Kaap and Greenmarket Square sit within a 25-minute walk of each other. Between clusters you drive or ride-hail: the getting around page has the arithmetic.
How far is Cape Point from the city centre on the map?
About 60 km down the peninsula — roughly 75 minutes' drive one way without stops, and a full day done properly with Boulders Beach on the way. The peninsula loop places the stops in order.
Which pins on the Cape Town map are free?
The green set: Lion's Head, Signal Hill, the Sea Point Promenade, Greenmarket Square and Company's Garden, the Bo-Kaap streets, the V&A Waterfront precinct, Muizenberg beach and Hout Bay harbour. Cape Town for free routes them into full days.
Can I open these Cape Town map pins in Google Maps?
Yes — every pin's popup and every row in the list below the map carries an Open-in-Google-Maps link, so you can navigate from your own phone once you have picked the stop.
Where are the day trips on this map?
Deliberately off it — Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Hermanus, the shark boats and the flower parks sit 45 minutes to three hours out, and pinning them would shrink the city to a dot. Each has its own page with a map on the day trips hub.
Cape Town Orientation on Video
Three walk-throughs that put the map's clusters in order — the city bowl, the seaboard and the peninsula — before you commit your days.
21 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Visiting Cape Town
Orientation-level advice that pairs with the pins on this page.
Video: Camden David3 Days in Cape Town + Hop-On Hop-Off
The bus loop connects half the pins on this map — this shows the ride.
Video: Jens Journeyz15 Best Things To Do In Cape Town
The headline sights from the teal pin set, filmed on the ground.
Video: World Wild HeartsVideos load from YouTube only when you press play.
Reviewed Q3 2026 (July–September 2026); next review Q4 2026. Prices, hours and terms are set by the venue or operator and confirmed at checkout.
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