Rocklands
in City of Cape Town of Western Cape, South Africa
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Cape Town International Airport (19 mi) - Robertson Airport (87 mi)
- Langebaanweg Airport (88 mi)
- Saldanha /Vredenburg Airport (91 mi)
- Overberg Airport (105 mi)
- Vredendal Airport (178 mi)
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (Unesco heritage, 27 mi)
- Table Mountain Aerial Cableway (observation point, (19 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -34.217 and 18.464 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -34° 13' 0" and E 18° 27' 49"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Rand - ZAR
- Spoken languages:
- Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda, South Ndebele
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 05:22 PM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Africa/Johannesburg
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:30 am and 5:54 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 22.221 and -159.561 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Haena - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,4 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to South Africa.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning South Africa. Last Update: 2024-05-12 08:29:37
Explore Rocklands
Rocklands in City of Cape Town (Western Cape) is located in South Africa about 825 mi (or 1,327 km) south-west of Pretoria, the country's capital.
Local time in Rocklands is now 05:22 PM (Sunday). The local timezone is named Africa / Johannesburg with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 6 airports in the wider vicinity of Rocklands, of which one is a larger airport. The closest airport in South Africa is Cape Town International Airport in a distance of 19 mi (or 31 km), North-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. It's Cape Floral Region Protected Areas in a distance of 27 mi (or 43 km), North. We found 1 points of interest in the vicinity of this place. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Hermanus and Malmesbury. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 19°C / 67 °F
| Morning Temperature | 14°C / 58 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 16°C / 61 °F |
| Night Temperature | 14°C / 58 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 56% |
| Air Pressure | 1023 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 11 km/h (7 mph) from North-West |
| Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 6% of sky |
| General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Monday, 13th of May 2024
18°C (64 °F)
17°C (63 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Tuesday, 14th of May 2024
21°C (69 °F)
17°C (62 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Wednesday, 15th of May 2024
18°C (64 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Villa Honeywood Guest House
Port Of Call
Magellan's Passage
Mariner Guesthouse
Grosvenor Guest House
A Boat House
Albatross Guest House
Simon's Town Guest House
Abington Manor - Fish Hoek Guesthouse
Cheriton Guest House Bed & Breakfast
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Twin penguin chicks vie for food
Twin South African penguin chicks in the Boulders Beach breeding colony on False Bay near Simons Town on Cape Point won't take no for an answer when they are hungry. Since penguin gender ...
African penguins
Penguins in the Boulders Beach, South Africa.
Penguin Trip WS.mov
Sea kayak trip from Simons Town to Boulders Beach to see the penguin colony.
Foxy Beach, Simon's Town - South Africa Travel Channel
Simon's Town, South Africa http://www.myvideomedia.de English see below [dt.] Foxy Beach bei Simon's Town ist eine von drei Festlandkolonien von Pinguinen in Südafrika. Foxy Beach ist Teil...
Pengiuns at Boulders Bay, South Africa
African penguins at Boulders Bay in South Africa.
African Penguin Colony - Simon's Town
Visiting the African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus, Black-footed Penguin, Jackass Penguin) at Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, South Africa. Google Maps Link: ...
Somebody Lost a Hat - Somebody Found a Nest
Somebody Lost a Hat - Somebody Found a Nest We went to the African Penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town. There were lots of tourists and one of the tourists lost a straw hat....
31102013 Penguin colony. Boulders bay. Foxy beach. South Africa
"Fluidscape" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Penguins at Boulders Beach - Japie Study Tour South Africa - July 2014
01-12-2011 African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) - Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
HMS Pelorus (J291)
HMS Pelorus (J291) was an Algerine-class minesweeper, built by Lobnitz of Renfrew, Scotland and launched on 19 June 1943. While equipped with minesweeping gear, she was primarily assigned to convoy escort duty in the Atlantic. In 1944, she led the D-Day invasion of Normandy. In 1947 the ship was sold to the South African Navy and renamed HMSAS Pietermaritzburg (and later SAS Pietermaritzburg).
Boulders Beach
Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located in the Cape Peninsula, near Simon's Town towards Cape Point, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. It is a popular tourist stop because of a colony of African Penguins which settled there in 1982. Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.
Sepia dubia
Sepia dubia is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is known only from the type locality, where it was caught at a depth of 25 m. S. dubia is known to grow to a mantle length of 17 mm. The type specimen was collected in False Bay, South Africa . It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.
Simon's Town railway station
Simon's Town railway station is a Metrorail railway station in the town of Simon's Town on the Cape Peninsula; it is the southern terminus of the Southern Line. The station is located between Station Road and the beach. The railway line from Fish Hoek into Simon's Town is single-track, but the station itself has three tracks; one track is served by a side platform next to the station building on Station Road, while the other two are served by an island platform connected by a pedestrian subway.
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