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Mountain · Western Cape

Signal Hill

350 m1,148 ft
Prominence
75 m247 ft
Isolation
1.9 km
Tonight
13°CCloudy · Wind 4 km/h SE

Signal Hill is a 350 m (1,148 ft) mountain in Western Cape, South Africa.

All facts
Elevation
350 m · 1,148 ft
Nearest higher peak
Lion's Head (669 m)
Region
Western Cape, South Africa
Protected area
Table Mountain National Park
Coordinates
33.9174° S, 18.4037° E
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3D map

Signal Hill 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6 × 6 km

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Vertical scale
Topographic map

Signal Hill topographic map

20 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Downloads

Signal Hill downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Route

How to get to the top of Signal Hill

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Parking, 0.7 km SW of Signal Hill

Distance
0.8 kmone way
Climb
+50 m−7 m (164 ft up)
Time up
about 0.5 h
Difficulty
Grade not mapped
Signal Hill elevation profile
30035000.8 kmSignal Hill

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 1
  • Road end, 0.8 km W of Signal Hill1.3 km · +259 m · about 1 h
    Grade not mappedGPXKML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

Weather

Signal Hill weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 13°C (55°F) · Wind 4 km/h SE

Signal Hill forecast for the summit, about 350 m.

  • Tonight13°–4 km/h SE
  • Today14°22°–26 km/h S
  • Sun13°22°–36 km/h S
  • Mon13°21°–30 km/h S
  • Tue13°23°–14 km/h W
  • Wed15°25°–15 km/h S
  • Thu17°31°–17 km/h S
  • Fri17°33°1.5 mm26 km/h S
  • Sat15°22°0.2 mm29 km/h S
  • Sun14°21°–27 km/h S

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

Camping & parking near Signal Hill

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

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Parking0.1 km WSW
Parking0.1 km WSW
Parking0.6 km SW
ParkhausCaravan site1.4 km E
Platteklip GorgeTrailhead4.4 km SSE
The People's Trail HutHut6.3 km S
Slope

How steep is the route to Signal Hill?

The easiest mapped route, 0.8 km from 303 m to 350 m. Steepest stretch: 22°.

0 km · 303 m0.8 km · 350 m
  • 0–15°0.7 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 36.5%Built-up 33.9%Grassland 10.4%Trees 9.4%Shrubland 8.2%Bare rock / sparse 1.4%

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

Where it sits

Where Signal Hill sits

Region
Western Cape9South Africa23Africa69
Protected area
Table Mountain National Park4
Nearby

Nearby places

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 350 m at the summit; the official height is 350 m.Official 350 m90 m model 348 mThis map 350 m

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)350 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)350 m0 m
Copernicus GLO-90348 m-2 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