5 December 2025
The temperature is Mild with Good visibility & Gale Force winds.
First up
08:00
Last up
20:00
Last down
21:00
Waiting times
Lower: ± 00 05 mins
Upper: ± 00 05 mins
Virtual Cable Card
Access all year round
Virtual Cable Card
Enjoy year-round access to Table Mountain, discounts and more!
If you love Table Mountain and use the cable car regularly, sign up for our virtual Cable Card and save!
Procedure for virtual Cable Cards
On purchasing a virtual Cable Card, visitors will receive a Text message. This Text message contains a link that you must click on. Once you have clicked on the link, the virtual Cable Card will be displayed on your cellphone.
The virtual Cable Card can be saved to the phone or visitors can print it out if they like. Upon visiting the Cableway, the virtual Cable Card will be scanned from the visitor's phone.
- Get free entrance to the Cableway, valid for one year from date of purchase
- Visit the Cableway as often as you like, limited to one return trip per day, ie. one trip up and one trip down
- Qualify for discounts on selected items at the Shop at the Top and Ten67 Eatery
- Get a subscription to our quarterly e-newsletter
- Standard Cable Card holders need to join the “ticket holders” queue
- Fast Track Cable Card holders access the Cable Cars via our Fast Track pathway
Please note: Table Mountain Cableway is closed for annual maintenance from 28 July – 3 August 2025. Cable Cards that are valid during this period will automatically be extended by 1 week.
Card Type
Price (1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026)
Adult Cable Card ticket
R1 600
Child (4-17 years)
R800
New Pensioner Cable Card (SA ID required 60 years and older)
R950
Fast Track Cable Card
R6 000
Important information
- The Cable Card is available for adults and for children between 4 and 17, and South African pensioners, 60 years and older.
- Purchase your virtual Cable Card online or at the Lower Cable Station between 09:00 and 15:00, Monday to Sunday (including public holidays) at the Visitor Centre
- Don’t forget to bring a valid South African ID (passport, birth certificate, ID book) or a valid passport for non-South Africans.
- Pensioner Cable Card are available to South Africans 60 years and older only (South African ID required).
- Cable card purchases will not be refunded.
- For more information on the Cable Card, please email cablecard@tablemountain.net or call +27 (0)21 424 0015.
- Cable Cards are not transferable. Any Cable Card found in the possession of someone who is not the rightful owner will be confiscated and canceled.
- Cable Cardholders are entitled to one Cable Card per year as the usage of the Cable Card is for the owner only.
- If you’ve hiked up and the Cableway is closed, our normal operating rules apply, and you would have to walk back down.