Tukuk-OS🌆 Cape Town
South Africa · Africa · 33.92°S, 18.42°E
Quick facts
| Country | South Africa |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Africa |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 33.92°S, 18.42°E · view on map |
Cape Town is in South Africa, a country in Africa. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Cape Town’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Cape Town sits on the Earth
At 33.92° south of the equator, Cape Town is about 3,772 km from the equator itself and 6,236 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the subtropics, where summers run hot and how mild the winter feels depends heavily on the nearest sea. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 56.1° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,389 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Cape Town sees its longest day lasts about 14.3 hours of daylight and its shortest about 9.7.
Nearest cities on our list: Gaborone (1,260 km to the northeast), Johannesburg (1,262 km to the northeast), Windhoek (1,269 km to the north), Durban (1,271 km to the east-northeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Cape Town emerges at 33.92°N, 161.58°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Honolulu, about 1,449 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.
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