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Lion's Head
- Easiest route
- 2.1 km+322 m · about 1 h
- Prominence
- 428 m1,403 ft
- Isolation
- 2.0 km
- Tonight
- 12°CCloudy · Wind 7 km/h SW
Lion's Head is a 669 m (2,195 ft) mountain in Western Cape, South Africa.
All facts
- Elevation
- 669 m · 2,195 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Table Mountain (1,085 m)
- Region
- Western Cape, South Africa
- Protected area
- Table Mountain National Park
- Spanish name
- Cabeza de León
- Coordinates
- 33.9357° S, 18.3893° E
How to get to the top of Lion's Head
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Parking, 0.8 km NE of Lion's Head
- Distance
- 2.1 kmone way
- Climb
- +322 m−13 m (1,056 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Lion's Head 3D map
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Lion's Head terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Lion's Head weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 12°C (54°F) · Wind 7 km/h SW
Lion's Head forecast for the summit, about 669 m.
- Tonight12°–7 km/h SW
- Today12°17°–33 km/h SE
- Sun12°18°–44 km/h SE
- Mon11°17°1.9 mm35 km/h S
- Tue11°17°–10 km/h W
- Wed13°20°–20 km/h SE
- Thu15°24°–24 km/h SE
- Fri15°25°1.8 mm31 km/h SE
- Sat13°19°0.5 mm32 km/h S
- Sun13°16°–34 km/h SE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lion's Head
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lion's Head, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Lion´s Head
Nearest trailhead
Platteklip Gorge
Nearest caravan site
Parkhaus
Nearest hut
The People's Trail Hut
Nearest campsite
Orange Kloof Tented Camp
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lion´s HeadParking | 0.5 km E |
| Parking | 0.9 km SSW |
| Parking | 0.9 km NE |
| Platteklip GorgeTrailhead | 3.3 km SE |
| ParkhausCaravan site | 3.6 km NE |
| The People's Trail HutHut | 4.3 km SSE |
| Overseer's CottageHut | 6.6 km SSE |
| Orange Kloof Tented CampCampsite | 7.6 km S |
How steep is the route to Lion's Head?
The easiest mapped route, 2.1 km from 287 m to 669 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°1.9 km
- 15–30°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 30 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Lion's Head sits
- Region
- Western Cape9South Africa23Africa69
- Protected area
- Table Mountain National Park4
Nearby places
Lion's Head downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
69 m low This 3D map reads 600 m at the summit; the official height is 669 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 79 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 669 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 600 m | -69 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 590 m | -79 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)
- Routes, 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