Cape Town beaches show excellent water quality
A recent independent analysis of water samples at Cape Town beaches have shown excellent, world-class water quality at 30 of the city’s most popular beaches..
According to the City of Cape Town, the recent data includes the enterococci counts for the last 10 samples taken at each of these 30 recreational nodes.
As per the results:
• 100% of the 120 water samples taken over the last month have shown water quality within recreational use guidelines across these 30 most popular beaches.
• For the last 300 test results dating to August 2024, only 2,3% exceeded the upper limit of 240, usually due to a rainfall event or isolated pollution incident.
Summer Dashboard up and running
The City will also be providing weekly updates for the public on a ‘Summer Dashboard’, listing the 10 latest water quality results for each of the 30 most popular beaches along the coastline.
This Summer Dashboard will be available from now until the end of January 2025 on the City’s website, and will provide weekly enterococci results for these 30 most popular recreational beaches:
- Atlantic coastline:
- Melkbosstrand;
- Big Bay and Small Bay;
- Milnerton;
- Saunders tidal pool;
- Clifton 2nd;
- Clifton 4th;
- Maiden’s Cove tidal pool;
- Glen Beach;
- Camps Bay central,
- Camps Bay south;
- Camps Bay tidal pool;
- Llandudno;
- Mariners Wharf Hout Bay;
- Chapman’s Hout Bay
- False Bay coastline:
- Seaforth;
- Long Beach Simon’s Town;
- Fish Hoek swimming area;
- Dalebrook tidal pool;
- St James tidal pool;
- Muizenberg central (Surfer’s Corner);
- Strandfontein tidal pool;
- Strandfontein beach;
- Mnandi east;
- Monwabisi beach;
- Monwabisi tidal pool;
- Strand beach;
- Gordon’s Bay;
- Bikini beach;
- Kogel Bay
Which beach in Cape Town is your favourite?
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