False Bay
False Bay is located on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. The water in the bay is much warmer than the Atlantic Seaboard, partly being fed by the subtropical Agulhas current, making it popular for swimming.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pbsouthwood, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Simon’s Town and Khayelitsha.
Simon’s Town
Photo: Darren Glanville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Simon's Town is located at the east side of the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town, South Africa and is home to the South African Navy.
Khayelitsha
Photo: FreddieA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Khayelitsha is in South Africa. Khayelitsha is situated next to the N2, which connects Cape Town with George. It's close to Cape Town International Airport.
Fish Hoek
Photo: nairnbairn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fish Hoek is a picturesque town situated about halfway down the Cape Peninsula, between Cape Town and Simon's Town. It is well known for its beach, which gets jam-packed on sunny days.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Muizenberg and Boulders Beach.
Muizenberg
Photo: Hilton1949, CC BY 2.5.
Muizenberg is a beach-side town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is situated where the shore of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast.
Boulders Beach
Photo: Christoph Michels, CC BY 2.5.
Boulders is a popular beach near Simon's Town, Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. There are larger and more scenic beaches around, as Boulders, which gets its name from the large boulders surrounding it, is fairly small, although it is often sheltered from the prevailing winds.
Strand
Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strand is a far western suburb of Cape Town on the north coast of False Bay, just south of Somerset West and just west of Gordon's Bay.
Kalk Bay
Photo: Ken and Nyetta, CC BY 2.0.
Kalk Bay is a small fishing harbour along the east coast of the Cape Peninsula to the south of Cape Town. It has become a very hip and trendy place, with a fine selection of restaurants, coffee shops and bistros, and a number of eclectic, alternative shops along the Main Road on either side of the train station.
Gordon’s Bay
Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gordon's Bay is a suburb of greater Cape Town, and on the east side of the Strand. it is situated between False Bay and the foot of the Hottentots Holland mountain range.
False Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to Cape Town, South Africa; so called because sailors confused Cape Point and Cape Hangklip
- Location: Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-34.2108° or 34° 12′ 39″ southLongitude of center
18.6409° or 18° 38′ 27″ eastOpenStreetMap ID
node 4714454260OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“False Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Valsbaai”
- Catalan: “False Bay”
- Cebuano: “False Bay”
- Chinese: “法尔斯湾”
- Chinese: “法爾斯灣”
- Chinese: “福尔斯湾”
- Chinese: “福爾斯灣”
- Chinese: “錯灣”
- Chinese: “錯誤灣”
- Chinese: “错湾”
- Chinese: “错误湾”
- Czech: “False Bay”
- Danish: “False Bay”
- Dutch: “Valsbaai”
- Esperanto: “Falsa Golfo”
- French: “baie False”
- French: “Baie False”
- Galician: “Baía Falsa”
- German: “Falsche Baai”
- German: “False Bay”
- German: “Valsbaai”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פולס”
- Indonesian: “Valsbaai”
- Italian: “Falsa Baia”
- Japanese: “フォールス湾”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “False Bay”
- Polish: “False Bay”
- Polish: “Valsbaai”
- Portuguese: “Baía falsa”
- Portuguese: “Baía Falsa”
- Slovenian: “False Bay”
- Spanish: “Bahia Falsa”
- Spanish: “Bahía Falsa”
- Swedish: “False Bay”
- Swedish: “Valsbaai”
- Urdu: “فالس بے”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “False Bay”. Photo: Pbsouthwood, Public domain.