Surf Lessons in Cape Town: 5 Top Schools (2026)

An independent surf school and booking agency that has traded for over a decade, running its own lessons and working with partner schools at Blouberg on the Atlantic side and Muizenberg on False Bay. It is accredited by Surfing South Africa, caps groups at five students per coach and takes children from age eight.

A surf school on The Row in Muizenberg, on the False Bay side of the peninsula, for complete beginners and improvers. Group lessons are capped at four people, and the school's stated aim is to avoid the scary moments that put new surfers off; it also runs surf guiding and trips to Sri Lanka.

A mobile surf school with a Camps Bay address on Google but no fixed beach: its site says it picks the spot by wind, swell and tide, most often Muizenberg or Big Bay. It specialises in private lessons, surf guiding for competent surfers and private day tours that mix surfing with sightseeing, food and wine.

A surf school at Big Bay in Bloubergstrand, on the Atlantic coast north of the city; its booking page gives the address as Eden on the Bay. Lessons last 90 minutes with board and wetsuit included, and there are packs of three to ten lessons plus coaching for intermediate and experienced surfers.

A bodyboarding-only coaching and guiding company on Main Road in Muizenberg, not a stand-up surf school. It runs daily one-hour group classes, one-on-one lessons, day trips around the southern peninsula and bodyboard weekends, and rents boards, wetsuits and fins.