Cape Town · South Africa
Hout Bay
Hout Bay sits on the Atlantic side of Cape Town, a fishing harbour still in daily use, held between the mountains and the cold open sea. Table Mountain National Park rises straight out of the water behind it, and the city is close enough to reach in an hour and far enough to forget.
Why the place feels alive.
A cold Atlantic runs here at around fourteen degrees all year. The wind they call the Cape Doctor clears the air off the peaks, and from June to November southern right whales come up from Antarctica to calve in the bays. On the mountain slopes above the shore grows fynbos, more than seven thousand plant species in the Cape Floral Region, one of the smallest and richest plant kingdoms on earth.
Summers are warm, dry and bright, close to eleven hours of sun a day from December to February. Winters are cool, green and quiet, the season of storms and whales. Spring and autumn are the long calm windows, mild and uncrowded.
Why a team would come.
Cape Town is one of the largest technology hubs on the continent, home to the founder of Ubuntu and to fintechs like JUMO, with shared studios like Neighbourgood and a visa for people employed abroad that runs up to three years. Founders and builders come for a rare combination, a serious creative scene and wild nature at the same address.
Nearby
- Chapman's Peak Drive
- Table Mountain trails
- Stellenbosch winelands
- Cape Point
- Boulders penguin colony
Hout Bay, up close.
- Best months are October to April, warm, dry and bright.
- The southeaster wind, the Cape Doctor, blows hard through summer.
- Whales are in the bays from June to November.
- A city of sharp contrasts; keep the awareness you would in any large city.
Cape Town International is a major international airport, with direct flights to London, Amsterdam, Dubai and Doha. Fibre reaches a gigabit, the time zone runs two hours ahead of London, and the grid has steadied after years of load shedding.
34.03° S, 18.35° E
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