Western Cape · live coverage
Lower-risk driving routes in Cape Town
Cape Town has more rated areas than any other metro we cover, and a geography that makes the routing matter more. Mountain and coastline mean there are often only two or three ways between any two points, so when a route does pass something flagged there is rarely an easy alternative. A thoughtless detour costs you much more here than it would in Johannesburg.
What the data looks like here
909 mapped areas across Cape Town.
Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. Here is how Cape Town’s 909 areas fall across the bands at each of those hours.
Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. No area in the country is rated worse by day than it is at night, so the night bar is also the worst case.
Driving here
What matters on Cape Town’s roads
- The N2 between the airport and the city is the thing people ask about most. It is mapped end to end, rated separately for each time of day.
- The N1, N2, N7 and R300 carry protective ratings. Diverting you off a freeway onto side streets to improve a number would leave you worse off, so the router will not do it.
- Risk here sits in specific pockets rather than spreading along the main roads. A bigger share of the metro has been checked and rated as carrying no penalty than in Johannesburg, so more of the map is green rather than blank.
Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.
Questions
Common questions about Cape Town
Is the drive from Cape Town International into the city covered?
Yes. The N2 airport corridor is mapped both ways with separate day, evening and night ratings. If the app takes you a different way, it tells you what it went around.
Does Tsamaya work over Table Mountain and the peninsula?
The full City of Cape Town municipal area is mapped, including the Atlantic seaboard, the southern peninsula and the Cape Flats.
Why does the Cape Town map look emptier than Johannesburg?
Because the risk here clusters tightly rather than smearing across the metro. A blank map is real information: it means nothing was flagged, not that we never looked.
Also mapped
Other metros
Drive Cape Town with the risk on the map.
Tsamaya is free and in open beta on iPhone and Android. Install it straight from TestFlight or Google Play.