Simon's Town
in City of Cape Town of Western Cape, South Africa
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Cape Town International Airport (18 mi) - Langebaanweg Airport (86 mi)
- Robertson Airport (88 mi)
- Saldanha /Vredenburg Airport (89 mi)
- Overberg Airport (106 mi)
- Vredendal Airport (176 mi)
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (Unesco heritage, 25 mi)
- Table Mountain Aerial Cableway (observation point, (17 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -34.193 and 18.436 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -34° 11' 36" and E 18° 26' 9"
- 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: 10:00 AM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Africa/Johannesburg
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:19 am and 6:07 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 22.221 and -159.561 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Haena - References
- This place on Wikipedia
- 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: 2024-04-28 08:22:10
Delve into Simon's Town
Simon's Town in City of Cape Town (Western Cape) is a town located in South Africa about 825 mi (or 1,327 km) south-west of Pretoria, the country's capital town.
Time in Simon's Town is now 10:00 AM (Sunday). The local timezone is named Africa / Johannesburg with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 6 airports closer to Simon's Town, of which one is a larger airport. The closest airport in South Africa is Cape Town International Airport in a distance of 18 mi (or 30 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 25 mi (or 40 km), North. We saw 1 points of interest near this location. In need of a room? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Since you are here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury and Hermanus. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 19°C / 66 °F
| Morning Temperature | 17°C / 62 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 16°C / 61 °F |
| Night Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 68% |
| Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (6 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 16% of sky |
| General Conditions | Few clouds |
Monday, 29th of April 2024
17°C (63 °F)
15°C (60 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Tuesday, 30th of April 2024
17°C (63 °F)
14°C (56 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Wednesday, 1st of May 2024
17°C (63 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Villa Honeywood Guest House
Rodwell House
St James Manor
Mariner Guesthouse
African Queen Guesthouse
Sonnekus Guest House
Chartfield Guesthouse
Abington Manor - Fish Hoek Guesthouse
Grosvenor Guest House
Simon's Town Guest House
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Penguins at Boulders Park near Cape Town, South Africa
On the Cape Peninsula Baz Bus tour, we stopped and saw the CUTE penguins in Boulders Park.
Boulders Penguin Colony - Cape Town, South Africa
Boulders Beach is a popular little beach and protected penguin colony.
African Penguins of Boulders Beach, South Africa.
Boulders Beach penguin goes for a swim
Sometimes, you just got to plunge right in.
Muizenberg Bouldersbeach Zwartvoetpinguin
Zuid Afrika, Kaapstad, Muizenberg surfen en Zwartvoetpinguïns bij Boulders Beach.
Simonstown Boat Trips - Cape Peninsula, South Africa
The Simonstown harbour has a large variety of boating trips available, including daily trips to see the seals and penguins, speedboats amd kayaks. This video was produced by SmartGuide for...
旅する鈴木412:Visiting Simon's Town @South Africa
Simon's Town. Small town. There is Penguins, Whales and Seals. Beautiful town. This is a film of the one couple who is traveling around the world.We are going central america at first, then...
GoPro Scuba - Night Dive at Long Beach, Cape Town
This video contains the highlights of our latest night dive, which includes some great footage of a flatworm and cuttlefish putting on quite a show! This video was filmed using my GoPro Hero...
GoPro Scuba - DIY PVC Video Light Test Footage Comparison (Night Dive)
I finally managed to get a night dive in, in order to test my new DIY PVC Video Lights and compare the footage to my previous night dive when I only had my LED Lenser D14 to work with, The...
Diver's Digest - Cleaning the SAS Assegaai
3 August 2014 - After serving the SA Navy for over 30 years, the Daphne-class SAS Assegaai was taken out of service in 2003 and converted to a meuseum, lying next to the harbour wall in Simontown.
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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.
Cape Peninsula
The Cape Peninsula is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the African continent. At the southern end of the peninsula are Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. On the northern end is Table Mountain, overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. The peninsula is 52 km long from Mouille point in the north to Cape Point in the south.
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.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Simon's Town.
This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Simonstad
