Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

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What’s Cape Town, South Africa like for Digital Nomads?

Find out in this Digital Nomad Trip Report from nomad & slow traveller, Paige Goldstein after she spent 10 months in this beautiful city ☀️

📆 Time Spent

10 months

👥 Traveling As

With Friends

📍 Location / Area

Camps Bay, De Water Kant, Seapoint

🏡 Accommodation

Airbnb and Short term lease

🏡 Cost of Living

According to Numbeo:

• Meal (inexpensive restaurant) - $7.88

• Bottle of water - $0.69

• Cinema ticket - $5.78

• Monthly gym membership - $37.17

• Monthly sim (calls + 10gb data) - $33.49

• Apartment (1 bed, city centre) - $659.68

🌐 Internet / Working

• There are tons of digital nomad friendly cafes with great wifi

• Lots of coworking options with great wifi too

  Note: Cape Town experiences Load Shedding - an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. To ensure you experience as little disruption as possible, look to book a place that does not get load shedding, has a generator, or has solar power.

🗣️ Language: English is widely spoken

It is very easy to communicate with locals and other tourists

🌤️ Weather

• Beautiful weather!

• It is Cape Town summer from Oct-April (think sunshine & clear skies)

• The hottest months are Dec, Jan and Feb

🎟️ Public Transport & Infrastructure

• Uber and Bolt are very popular in Cape Town.

• It is also easy to rent a car while you are here and there is so much to explore within South Africa so I do recommend it.

• They also have public transportation that is very affordable if you’d prefer to get around that way.

Things to do

• Explore the natural beauty of hiking and the iconic mountains Table Mountain and Lion’s Head

• Explore the wine country and all of the beautiful landscapes and wineries around!

• Explore the hundreds of beach options ranging from some iconic ones like Camps Bay and Clifton to more secret secluded ones like Bakoven beach and Cosy Bay

📈 Best things

• The locals

• The food options

• The weather and natural beauty

📉 Worst things

• It’s not advised to walk around at night

• Load shedding

• The poverty gap

✅ Go here if…

• You want to meet other digital nomads and creatives

• You want to have amazing food and cuisine options

• You love hiking, nature and beaches

❌ Avoid here if…

• You enjoy walking around the city at night

• You’re sensitive to being around a low poverty line

• Not able to deal with load-shedding inconveniences (ideally you’d have a flexible work schedule to work around this)

That’s all for this time.

See you right back here next Friday, with another community-sourced Digital Nomad Trip Report 🔵 

👏 A Big Thank You To…

Paige from the US 🇺🇸 for submitting today’s report! 🎉

Paige co-hosts the Fill your Sol Podcast, where conversations are had with like-minded individuals who are finding what fills their soul; think remote work, entrepreneurship, travel, and more!

You can connect with Paige through LinkedIn or follow her travel journey over on Instagram or TikTok.

She’s always bringing top quality content!
Exhibit A - taking a local stranger on a helicopter tour 

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