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Chapman's Peak

592 m1,942 ft
Prominence
270 m887 ft
Isolation
2.3 km
Tonight
13°CCloudy · Wind 8 km/h S

Chapman's Peak is a 592 m (1,942 ft) mountain in Western Cape, South Africa.

All facts
Elevation
592 m · 1,942 ft
Nearest higher peak
Constantiaberg (927 m)
Region
Western Cape, South Africa
Protected area
Table Mountain National Park
Coordinates
34.0885° S, 18.3601° E
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3D map

Chapman's Peak 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Chapman's Peak terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Chapman's Peak elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Chapman's Peak weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 13°C (55°F) · Wind 8 km/h S

Chapman's Peak forecast for the summit, about 592 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 0 m.

  • Tonight13°–8 km/h SBase 17°
  • Today12°17°–33 km/h SBase 15 / 21°
  • Sun12°17°–45 km/h SEBase 16 / 20°
  • Mon12°18°0.7 mm35 km/h SEBase 16 / 22°
  • Tue11°19°–15 km/h NWBase 15 / 23°
  • Wed14°20°–21 km/h SEBase 17 / 24°
  • Thu15°23°–27 km/h SEBase 19 / 26°
  • Fri15°22°1.6 mm34 km/h SEBase 18 / 26°
  • Sat14°19°1.1 mm33 km/h SBase 17 / 22°
  • Sun13°16°–39 km/h SEBase 17 / 20°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Chapman's Peak

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Chapman's Peak, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest parking

    0.5 km NW

    +2 more within 0.7 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest campsite

    Chapman's Peak Caravan Park

    2.1 km SE · +2 more within 7.4 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest caravan site

    Imhoff Caravan Park

    5.3 km SSW

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 7
PlaceDistance
Parking0.5 km NW
Parking0.7 km NNW
Parking0.7 km NNW
Chapman's Peak Caravan ParkCampsite2.1 km SE
Old Silvermine tented campCampsite4.5 km ENE
Imhoff Caravan ParkCaravan site5.3 km SSW
Kommetjie tented campCampsite7.4 km SSW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 77% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
76.9%
Moderate, 15–30°
13.6%
Steep, 30–45°
7.6%
Cliffs, 45° and over
1.9%
Steeper than 30°
9.5% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
751 m low point 0 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 44.5%Grassland 23.0%Trees 18.8%Shrubland 9.7%Built-up 2.0%Bare rock / sparse 1.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Chapman's Peak sits

Region
Western Cape9South Africa23Africa69
Protected area
Table Mountain National Park4
Nearby

Nearby places

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

24 m low This 3D map reads 568 m at the summit; the official height is 592 m.Official 592 m90 m model 559 mThis map 568 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 33 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)592 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)568 m-24 m
Copernicus GLO-90559 m-33 m

Data sources

Terrain
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. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-10)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia