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Cape of Good Hope

Running normally

Conditions

Transits a day
78.6
Last 7 published days
Normal
90
a day, when nothing is wrong
Share of normal
87%
Jun 9Normal 90Sep 6
Daily transits through Cape of Good Hope
DateTransits
2026-06-0988
2026-06-10105
2026-06-1181
2026-06-1276
2026-06-1379
2026-06-14107
2026-06-1596
2026-06-1697
2026-06-1783
2026-06-1893
2026-06-1994
2026-06-2098
2026-06-21106
2026-06-22110
2026-06-2390
2026-06-2478
2026-06-2590
2026-06-2691
2026-06-27105
2026-06-2879
2026-06-2988
2026-06-30102
2026-07-01100
2026-07-0297
2026-07-03101
2026-07-0468
2026-07-05115
2026-07-0699
2026-07-0797
2026-07-0876
2026-07-0985
2026-07-1088
2026-07-1191
2026-07-1297
2026-07-13102
2026-07-14103
2026-07-1587
2026-07-1695
2026-07-1789
2026-07-1884
2026-07-1990
2026-07-2081
2026-07-2193
2026-07-22100
2026-07-2393
2026-07-2481
2026-07-2591
2026-07-2691
2026-07-2777
2026-07-2868
2026-07-2972
2026-07-3099
2026-07-31123
2026-08-0183
2026-08-0297
2026-08-0383
2026-08-0489
2026-08-05103
2026-08-0685
2026-08-0783
2026-08-0885
2026-08-0983
2026-08-1083
2026-08-11102
2026-08-1269
2026-08-1386
2026-08-1481
2026-08-15123
2026-08-1699
2026-08-1783
2026-08-1879
2026-08-19105
2026-08-2099
2026-08-2195
2026-08-2296
2026-08-2384
2026-08-24101
2026-08-2586
2026-08-2683
2026-08-2798
2026-08-2898
2026-08-2989
2026-08-3088
2026-08-3182
2026-09-01100
2026-09-0290
2026-09-0377
2026-09-0458
2026-09-0563
2026-09-0680

Daily transits from 2026-06-09 to 2026-09-06, running between 58 and 123 a day.

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 80 transits. Across the 90 days on record the count has run between 58 and 123 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is -14% against the 7 days before.

Contracts on this passage

Everything above counts what already happened. These are the only figures on this page about what happens next, and nobody wrote them — the market did. Each is the price of a contract on this passage's published weekly transit count, and it moves while the market is open.

A price is what people here are paying to take that side. It is not a forecast and not an official figure. The count for a week is published a few days after the week ends, so these markets settle after their window closes.

Orbital view of the Cape of Good Hope

The passage

Narrowest clear water
63km
Widest lane that fits between the shores
Corridor
286km
Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at
34°56′S 20°53′E

These distances are worked out from the shape of the passage itself, not quoted from a reference. The clear-water figure is the widest lane that fits between the shores along the whole corridor. That comes out narrower than the headland-to-headland width an atlas prints.