Cape Town Zombie Walk 2026 is a 2.6 km event on Saturday 31 October, starting at 17:00 in Cape Town. The course is almost flat.
Halloween night in Cape Town. The horde gathers by the cannon in the Company's Garden, shuffles down St George's Mall to Thibault Square and back, and ends at the afterparty on the Paradise Lounge rooftop. Free, for all ages, and pets are welcome.
The course is almost flat.
Monster Energy at the start for anyone who wants one. Bring water and keep drinking as you walk
Down Government Avenue, over Wale Street into St George's Mall, down to Thibault Square and back up to Longmarket Street, then Longmarket, Parade and Albertus Streets to the Paradise Lounge: about 2.6 km
Saturday 31 October 2026
From 16:30 by the cannon at the top of the Company's Garden, 109 Government Avenue (by the cannon, not the museum steps). The walk starts at 17:00
None on the way. The one stop is Thibault Square, halfway, for activations and group photos
Free. All ages, and pets are welcome. Grab a free walk ticket on Quicket so the organisers can count the horde
Fake weapons only: no sharp blades, and prop guns need a bright orange tip. No open alcohol on the street (drinks are for the 18+ afterparty). Follow the marshals, medics and traffic officials
The Paradise Lounge rooftop, 9 Albertus Street, from 18:00. 18 and over, ticket required
The Lucky Lucy Foundation, which rescues and cares for abused and neglected animals
16:30 · The cannon, Company's Garden
The horde gathers by the cannon at the top of the Company's Garden, 109 Government Avenue: the First World War howitzer of the Artillery Memorial, not the museum steps. Gathering starts at 16:30 and the walk sets off at 17:00. It is free, all ages are welcome and so are pets. Monster Energy, the walk's sponsor, hands out drinks at the start for anyone who wants one.
km 0.1 to 0.5 · Government Avenue
Down the path along Government Avenue, under oaks first planted in the time of Simon van der Stel. The Dutch East India Company dug the first beds here in 1652 to grow food for its passing ships, which makes this the oldest garden in South Africa. Tonight the lawns on either side belong to the dead.
km 0.5 · Wale Street
Out of the gardens and across Wale Street at the robots, beside St George's Cathedral, Desmond Tutu's "people's cathedral", into St George's Mall. At the top of the mall stands a segment of the Berlin Wall, a gift from the city of Berlin that Nelson Mandela chose in 1996. Cross with the lights: the road is open to traffic.
km 0.6 to 1.3 · St George's Mall
All the way down St George's Mall, the city's long pedestrian street, crossing Strand Street and Riebeek Street at the traffic lights. There are no stops on the way: the horde keeps moving until Thibault Square.
km 1.0 · Strand Street
Strand means beach: Strand Street once ran along the shore of Table Bay, before the Foreshore was won from the sea in the 1930s and 1940s. It is one of the busiest crossings in the city, so cross with the lights. Sailors' legends say the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship doomed never to make port, still haunts the waters off the Cape.
km 1.2 to 1.3 · Thibault Square
Over Riebeek Street at the lights and into Thibault Square, below One Thibault: 126 metres tall, built from 1969 to 1972 as the BP Centre. This is halfway and the only stop of the walk, for the activations and the group photos. Then the horde turns back.
km 1.3 to 1.9 · St George's Mall
The horde turns and heads back up St George's Mall the way it came, over Riebeek, Strand and Castle Streets, as far as Longmarket Street. No stops from here to the end, so keep drinking water as you go.
km 1.9 to 2.3 · Longmarket Street
Left out of the mall and all the way down Longmarket Street, across Adderley, Plein and Corporation Streets, towards the Grand Parade.
km 2.3 to 2.5 · Parade Street
Right into Parade Street, beside the Grand Parade, with the Castle of Good Hope beyond it. The castle's best-known ghost story: in 1729 Governor Pieter Gysbert van Noodt sentenced seven deserters to hang, one of them cursed him from the gallows, and the governor was found dead in his chair that same day. His ghost is said to walk the ramparts.
km 2.5 to 2.6 · Albertus Street
Left into Albertus Street to the end of the walk at the Paradise Lounge, 9 Albertus Street, where the official afterparty runs on the rooftop: 18 and over, with a ticket. The walk raises funds and awareness for the Lucky Lucy Foundation, which rescues and cares for abused and neglected animals.
Route: the organisers' walking route in Google Maps and their directions, traced on OpenStreetMap. Times and details: zombiewalk.co.za