Cable car · Cape Town, South Africa
Table Mountain Cableway
Table Mountain Cableway is a cable car near Cape Town, South Africa. It climbs 625 m over 993 m, from 361 m to 986 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 155 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
93/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Table Mountain Cableway is scarier than 93% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site.
- Highest above the ground: about 155 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 632 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 993 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 32°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 722 m of the 993 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Table Mountain Cableway is near Cape Town, South Africa, at 361 m above sea level (33.94841° S, 18.40307° E). From there it runs 993 m up to the top station at 986 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.