Overall score
Cape Town is most useful for users comparing outdoor amenity, cultural depth, and resilience progress against energy-supply variability and water-cycle pressure.
Overall74/100
Affordability76/100
Air quality78/100
Energy70/100
South Africa / Africa
Cape Town City Intelligence
Cape Town is a coastal South African city known for striking natural surroundings, a deep tourism and creative-industry presence, and active work on energy and water resilience. Cape Town is a africa city of about 4.8M metro in South Africa. On the composite city-intelligence score, Cape Town sits around the indexed median (74/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 4.8M metro
Overall city intelligence
Good74/100
Strong outdoor amenity and cultural depth with energy and water-cycle pressure to manage.
Outdoor amenity
Very high
Coastal and mountain access supports a strong quality of daily life.
Water resilience
Active
Drought-cycle planning is integrated into urban operations.
Cape Town data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 74/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 76/100 | Cape Town offers comparatively favorable affordability for a major coastal city, with rising rent pressure in central neighborhoods. |
| Air Quality | 78/100 | Cape Town has solid baseline air quality, with episodic regional and biomass-burning events as the main exposure spikes. |
| Energy | 70/100 | Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability. |
| Safety | 64/100 | Cape Town has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
| Internet Speed | 76/100 | Cape Town has solid fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a growing remote-work and tourism-services presence. |
| Climate Risk | 66/100 | Cape Town faces meaningful climate exposure from drought, heat, and wildfire pressure, balanced by active adaptation programs. |
| Resilience | 72/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Cape Town
Cape Town offers comparatively favorable affordability for a major coastal city, with rising rent pressure in central neighborhoods.
Air Quality in Cape Town
Cape Town has solid baseline air quality, with episodic regional and biomass-burning events as the main exposure spikes.
Energy in Cape Town
Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability.
Safety in Cape Town
Cape Town has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day.
Internet Speed in Cape Town
Cape Town has solid fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a growing remote-work and tourism-services presence.
Climate Risk in Cape Town
Cape Town faces meaningful climate exposure from drought, heat, and wildfire pressure, balanced by active adaptation programs.
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Interpretation
Cape Town is most useful for users comparing outdoor amenity, cultural depth, and resilience progress against energy-supply variability and water-cycle pressure. Its standout dimensions are air quality (78/100) and cost of living (76/100). The area most worth watching is safety (64/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-05. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the South Africa country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Cape Town appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
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Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.