The 12 months could also be half over, however Cape City is just getting began. July is full of world-class youngsters’s leisure, flavour-filled meals and wine occasions, fascinating theatre and inventive artwork experiences throughout town.
Right here’s all the things you gained’t wish to miss:
Knysna Oyster Competition
📅 3–12 July 2026 📍 Knysna
Certainly one of South Africa’s most beloved winter occasions, the Knysna Oyster Competition combines sporting challenges, family-friendly actions, dwell leisure, and, in fact, loads of recent oysters. The pageant attracts hundreds of tourists annually and affords all the things from biking and operating occasions to meals markets and waterfront festivities. Extra data right here.
The Previous Cape Quarter Thrift Fest
📅 4 July 2026 📍 Inexperienced Level
Calling all classic lovers, discount hunters and sustainable trend followers! On the month-to-month Previous Cape Quarter Thrift Fest, take pleasure in a day of trend, books, jewelry, handmade items and distinctive finds. With dozens of distributors showcasing rigorously curated thrifted items, it’s the right alternative to refresh your wardrobe sustainably whereas supporting native small companies. Entry is free. Discover out extra right here.
Sustainable Seafood Fest
📅 4 – 5 July 2026 📍 Makers Touchdown, V&A Waterfront
Seafood lovers are in for a deal with because the Sustainable Seafood Fest returns to the V&A Waterfront. Guests can take pleasure in a recent fish market that includes Abalobi, Fish4Africa, and Greenfish, in addition to cooking demos, meals and beverage distributors, leisure and schooling zones, and dwell music. Entry is free. Be taught extra right here.
R&B Fest Cape City
📅 4 July 2026 📍 District, Harrington Road
Prepare for an evening of pure nostalgia as R&B Fest arrives in Cape City. Count on to sing and dance to hits from the ’90s and 2000s, with DJs spinning tracks from artists together with Usher, TLC, Ashanti, Future’s Little one, Sean Paul and Ne-Yo. The occasion guarantees to maintain the occasion going nicely into the early hours. Get your tickets right here.
The Pirates of Penzance
📅 4 -12 July 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
Cape City Gilbert & Sullivan Society brings this beloved comedian opera to life, that includes pirates, romance, mistaken identities and loads of laughs. With favourites corresponding to I Am the Very Mannequin of a Trendy Main-Normal, Poor Wandering One and With Cat-Like Tread, this recent and spirited Pirates guarantees laughter and musical brilliance for the entire household. Ebook now by way of Webtickets.
Southern Suburbs Holistic Competition
📅 5 July 2026 📍 Nook Collingwood and Rawson Road, Observatory
Reconnect and recharge on the Southern Suburbs Holistic Competition. That includes all issues wellness, the pageant, held on the primary Sunday of each month, affords talks and workshops, wellness distributors with holistic merchandise, and humanities and crafts. For market information, e-mail ssholisticfestival@gmail.com.
Disney On Ice: Mickey’s Search Occasion
📅 10 – 19 July 2026 📍 Grand Enviornment, GrandWest
Disney magic takes centre stage as Mickey Mouse and pals embark on an unforgettable journey on ice. That includes beloved characters from Frozen, Moana, Coco, Toy Story, and extra, this spectacular manufacturing showcases dramatic skating, acrobatics, and out-of-this-world particular results. It’s certainly one of Cape City’s largest household occasions of the winter season. Get your tickets right here.
One thing Rotten!
📅 10 – 18 July 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
This cheeky, tap-dancing, jazz-handed love letter to theatre gleefully asks one essential query: what occurs when the Bard’s competitors will get determined sufficient to invent the musical? The reply, because it seems, is chaos and loads of rhyming couplets. Briefly: should you’ve ever liked musicals, One thing Rotten! is right here to roast them, toast them, after which serve them up with a flourish of jazz palms. Get your tickets by way of Webtickets.
Bastille Competition
📅 11 – 12 July 2026 📍 Franschhoek
Costume in blue, white and crimson to rejoice French heritage within the coronary heart of the Cape Winelands. The annual pageant affords wine tastings, connoisseur meals, dwell music and road leisure. Don’t miss the favored Finest Dressed competitors, the place festival-goers showcase their most trendy French-inspired appears. Get your tickets right here.
Mom Metropolis Style Expertise ’26
📅 18 July 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
Cape City’s premier sustainable trend showcase returns, that includes rising designers, progressive collections and a celebration of native creativity. This 12 months’s theme, “Trash to Development,” challenges designers to remodel recycled and waste supplies into gorgeous trend items. This motion was born within the coronary heart of Khayelitsha and created to showcase expertise and tales from townships and past. Ebook your tickets by way of Webtickets.
Boschendal Citrus Competition
📅 18_19 July 2026 📍 Boschendal, Franschhoek
Boschendal’s much-loved annual Citrus Competition returns for 2 days of citrus selecting, dwell music, good meals, and real farm enjoyable within the coronary heart of the Winelands. A agency favorite on the Boschendal calendar, this 12 months will function a big lined seating space and bar, a weather-proof social house the place you may loosen up, seize a drink, and revel in a number of dwell bands performing all through the weekend. Your ticket consists of your citrus selecting expertise, a selecting bucket, and 3kg of hand-picked citrus fruit. Get your ticket by way of Quicket.
Cape City Competition of Operating
📅 18-19 July 2026 📍 Sea Level Promenade
The Cape City Competition of Operating is a premier occasion on South Africa’s road-running calendar, bringing collectively elite athletes, social runners, and health fans. The pageant options a wide range of race distances together with 50km, 21.1km and 5km races. Extra particulars right here.
Salome: This Is Me
📅 25 July 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
Following her sold-out present final 12 months, South African-born singer Salome is again, bringing This Is Me, a dwell expertise celebrating ladies, resilience, and authenticity. The present will take you on a journey by way of Salome’s life, from her cultural heritage and private struggles to her triumphs and self-discovery. Get your tickets right here.
Soul Society Winter Version: Christmas in July
📅 25 July 2026 📍 The Grand Daddy Boutique Resort
Soul Society is popping up the warmth this winter. Get pleasure from easy R&B, Soul Home, and soulful grooves from DJ Fabo, Will ST, Born2HouseMusic, Tino Nathan, and Summer season Heynes. Whether or not you’re there to bounce, socialise, or heat up this winter, this occasion is for you! Get your tickets by way of Quicket.
Time Out Market Winter Wine Sequence
📅 25 July 2026 📍 Time Out Market Cape City
The Time Out Market Winter Wine Sequence returns for an additional unforgettable season, bringing collectively distinctive wines, world-class cooks, and a neighborhood of wine lovers. In partnership with Time Out Market’s high cooks, take pleasure in a curated journey by way of meals and wine pairings. Restricted tickets can be found right here.
Simphiwe Dana: The Symphonic Expertise
📅 29 July 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
Award-winning singer-songwriter Simphiwe Dana joins the Cape City Philharmonic Orchestra for a one-night-only symphonic efficiency that blends jazz, soul and African music. An expertise you gained’t wish to miss! Safe your tickets right here.
Divalicious Dames
📅 30 July – 1 August 2026 📍 Artscape Theatre Centre
Drag-mime favourites Ramsay Davids and Martin Neethling return with a glamorous night of comedy and musical nostalgia. Count on outrageous costumes, basic hits and loads of laughs. Ebook your spot.
Tuna Struggle Membership
📅 30 July 📍 Time Out Market Cape City
This unique worldwide eating spectacle brings world-class cooks collectively underneath one roof to go head-to-head over a single legendary ingredient: tuna. On arrival, friends are welcomed with a spoon or fork and invited to style tuna freshly sourced from the ocean. Then the competitors begins. One after the other, the cooks step into the world, every unveiling their boldest, most creative tuna-inspired creation. Your ticket consists of limitless entry to the dwell tuna-carving expertise, signature dishes from competing cooks, a bottle of wine, and dwell music all through the night. Get your tickets by way of Howler.
Style of Terroir 2026: A Winter Crimson Wine Soirée
📅 31 July 2026 📍 Loch Lynne Wine Property, Durbanville Wine Valley
The Durbanville Wine Valley wraps up July in type with its signature winter celebration of cool-climate reds at Style of Terroir. This curated night brings collectively among the valley’s high winemakers for a walk-around tasting expertise showcasing the depth and character of the area’s award-winning wines. Your ticket consists of limitless crimson wine tastings from all Durbanville Wine Valley producers, dwell music, and three seasonal canapés from Kos Kouture. Get your tickets by way of Quicket.
