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Alexandria Hiking Trail

Local route33 km · 21 miGood year-round

Next nearby hike: Nieshout Trail 64 mi · 103 kmExplore Eastern Cape →

Eastern Cape, South AfricaEndStart5 kmN ↑

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7-day forecast

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Best time to hike

Year-round

  1. J24°18°55
  2. F24°19°54
  3. M23°18°66
  4. A22°16°58
  5. M21°14°52
  6. J19°12°58
  7. J19°12°44
  8. A19°12°75
  9. S20°13°59
  10. O20°14°80
  11. N21°15°78
  12. D23°17°59

Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.

How we pick months

Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.

Trail facts

Mapped length
33 km · 21 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
Nearest town
6.8 km SW of Alexandria (Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape) · GeoNames
Best months
Year-round
Country
South Africa
Region
Eastern Cape
Continent
Africa
Route type
Local route
Route centre
-33.7333, 26.3513
Route start
-33.7004, 26.3661
OpenStreetMap
relation 12927815
How it’s scored

Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.

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