Cape Town South Africa

Cape Town weather is seeing high temperatures with high velocity winds at the moment. There were and still are many veld fires around Cape Town (Franshhoek, Bainskloof, Gordon’s Bay, Camps Bay and more) the past 2 weeks.

This is just a friendly reminder not to toss your cigarettes out of your car window and to make sure that you put out any barbeque fires in public braai areas.

The rest of the country is soaking wet under a few consecutive days of rain. Just shows you, Cape Town is the place to be in South Africa…

The best time of the year to visit Cape Town is during the summer season, starting late October to March. Personally I find February to be my favorite time of the year. If you don’t like too many people around and prefer to travel less congested, come in January - March. There is still beautiful weather, but less people. Also less parties, so if you’re young and restless, come in December. There are literally thousands of parties happening every weekend with the best SA DJ’s on the scene.

During the early winter months (April - June) many visitors base themselves in Cape Town for trips up the Southern Cape (Garden Route tours). During this time, the Garden Route has wonderfully sunny weather, great attractions, which are all too many to mention and nice warm water to swim in.

So there you have it, best time to visit Cape Town is probably November - April, with February being my personal choice, weather wise and January recommended for travellers wanting more peace and quite yet still the feel of holiday around SA.

To find out the latest weather in Cape Town as well as extended weather forecasts for Cape Town, visit Iafrica.com’s Cape Town Weather page.

Cape Town has a reasonably stable annual weather pattern with rain during the winter months (June - September) and fair weather for the rest. From experience the temperatures seldomly dip below 12 degrees during the winter days and usually averages around 18 degrees. During summer (November - March) the weather is fair to hot with temperatures ranging between 22 and 35 degrees celcius.

The traditional South Easterly wind (the Cape Doctor) blows during the summer months, but there are more days without wind that with wind. When it blows it also tends to blow mid to late afternoon, with calm mornings. Sometimes you do however get the odd 3 day stint of persistent wind. During spring we also tend to get more South Easterly winds. It’s definately not unpleasant though and some beaches like Clifton are totally shielded from the South East.

We don’t really get thunder storms, but the winter months do see good rain. We’ve been on water restrictions lately due to a very dry summer last time round, but luckily we’ve had enough rain this winter. Please use tap water (which is perfectly safe to drink by the way) sparingly! The longest bouts of rain are usually 4-5 days and there are some wonderful sunny days inbetween.