The Kogelberg coast, from Gordon's Bay past Pringle Bay and Betty's Bay to Kleinmond, is an hour from Cape Town, with mountains that come down to the sea. Along the coast the signal is patchy; in the mountains behind it, it can go. This is what phones with LastBar measured.
What phones found
When this page was written, on 26 October 2026, phones had measured 205 spots of about 0.1 km² within 12 km of the middle of the Kogelberg. By the best signal of any carrier: 32 with no signal, 26 weak, 58 fair, 64 good and 25 excellent. The box above shows the figures as they are today.
- In and near the towns the signal was mostly good or fair.
- Between them, where the road runs under the cliffs and in the folds of the mountains, phones found weak signal and places with none.
What that means
- On the coast road, expect short stretches with no signal; in the reserve's valleys, longer ones.
- Save the area in LastBar, so Find Signal can point you to the nearest signal with no connection. In an emergency it looks at every carrier.
- On the water or on the trails, tell someone your plan and when you will be back.
These are what phones measured, a day old as the public map shows them, and not a promise: signal changes with the weather and the network.
