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National park · Western Cape
Table Mountain National Park
Table Mountain National Park is a national park in Western Cape, about 25 km south of Cape Town. It covers 225 km² — number 8 by size of the 23 Western Cape areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1998.
225km² recorded size
1998year established
—elevation of the point
25 kmsouth of Cape Town
Facts
- Type
- National park (national park of South Africa)
- Province
- Western Cape
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Size
- 225 km² · 22 500 ha
- Rank by size
- 35 of 115 nationally · 8 in Western Cape
- Established
- 1998
- IUCN category
- II — national park
- Part of
- Cape Floristic Kingdom
- Coordinates
- -34.1500, 18.3778
- Nearest large town
- Cape Town, 25 km south
- Wikipedia articles
- 21 languages
Nearby
Silvermine Nature ReserveNature reserve7 km north-east- Muizenberg CaveNature reserve8 km north-east
Boulders Penguin ColonyGame reserve8 km south-east- St. James SpringNature reserve9 km north-east
- Grysbok ParkNature reserve11 km north-east
- Tokai ParkNational park12 km north-east
Address and visiting
Listed addressCape Townsanparks.org
From business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026.
Opening hours
| Monday | 08:30–18:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:30–18:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:30–18:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30–18:00 |
| Friday | 08:30–18:00 |
| Saturday | 08:30–18:00 |
| Sunday | 08:30–18:00 |
Weekly hours, as published in business listings checked October 2026. Gate times change with the season — check before you travel.
GBIF records within 9 km
Wildlife recorded around Table Mountain National Park
3 360 mammal and 261 823 bird occurrence records within 9 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae742
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis740
- Brown Fur SealArctocephalus pusillus593
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus231
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis172
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis90
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio64
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta62
- Cape Dune Mole-ratBathyergus suillus57
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus57
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis49
- Cape GrysbokRaphicerus melanotis48
- Eastern Gray SquirrelSciurus carolinensis47
- CaracalCaracal caracal46
Birds
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio7 790
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus7 313
- African PenguinSpheniscus demersus6 150
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea5 593
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis5 165
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus5 018
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii4 922
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra4 704
- Cape CormorantPhalacrocorax capensis4 560
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris4 552
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca4 542
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis4 410
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens4 233
- African OystercatcherHaematopus moquini4 117
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.