Geocaching Statistics

1.6k · January 30, 2018

2017 Statistics, part 6: Finds distribution

50% of all the finds were logged by the top 2.5% of cachers.
84% of all the finds were logged by the top 20% of cachers.
The bottom 50% of cachers only logged 4.8% of the finds.
The last 1% of finds were logged by the bottom 18% of cachers.
A full 1902 cachers (24.9% of the total) only logged a single cache.
The average number of caches found was 18.1 per cacher, and the median was 4.
A total of 7649 cachers logged at least 1 cache in South Africa during 2017. (20% fewer than in 2016).
1644 cachers (21.5% of the total) logged at least 12 caches during the year; my arbitrary definition of "active" cachers. (6.9% fewer than in 2016).

I think Pete (TechnoNut) would have liked the following graph:

January 30, 2018

So the 80/20 role applies.

Is it possible to match hides vs finds for the year by cacher.

Edited January 30, 2018 by ChrisDen

1.6k · January 30, 2018

25 minutes ago, ChrisDen said:

So the 80/20 role applies.

Is it possible to match hides vs finds for the year by cacher.

Yes the 80/20 (Pareto) principle pops up everywhere.

Yes, I can match hides and finds per cacher, but what do you want to see? Best karma?

1.6k · January 31, 2018

On 1/29/2018 at 8:38 AM, Danie Viljoen said:

I don't think many people have logged more than 2000 finds in one year; I'll look into this later.

There are in fact 5:

1. iPajero:  184 days
2. tjoklits: 302 days
3. Geelvink: 319 days
4. MadSons:  322 days
5. Panters:  359 days

These are valid for all starting dates, not only 1 January.

The shortest periods to find 3000 caches are:

1. iPajero:  446 days
2. Panters:  551 days
3. Spesbona: 582 days
4. Geelvink: 594 days
5. tjoklits: 758 days

(These are for South African caches.)

January 31, 2018

22 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said:

Yes the 80/20 (Pareto) principle pops up everywhere.

Yes, I can match hides and finds per cacher, but what do you want to see? Best karma?

Would be interesting to see karma for the year - top and bottom 10.

Accumulative karma can be found on project-gc

1.6k · February 1, 2018

2017 Statistics, part 7: Ranking vs. no. of finds

To be in the top 1% of cache finders, you needed at least 327 South African finds for the year
To be in the top 100 cache finders, you needed at least 254 finds
To be in the top 10%, you needed at least 28 finds

1.3k · February 1, 2018

End January 2018

Country	Enabled	Disabled	Archived	Total Active	Rank	Find YTD2018	Find YTD2017	Difference	Hidden YTD2018	Hidden YTD2017	Difference	Active Cachers YTD2018	Active Cachers YTD2017	Difference
United States	1052980	10525	1173424	1063505	1	234546	277649	-15.5%	6188	7597	-18.5%	51211	53449	-4.2%
Germany	367793	8841	444785	376634	2	197757	179884	9.9%	3071	3159	-2.8%	59897	54880	9.1%
France	246038	4081	70944	250119	3	75996	71456	6.4%	2447	2927	-16.4%	15337	13078	17.3%
Canada	239066	2824	171325	241890	4	28761	36719	-21.7%	832	1382	-39.8%	5250	5941	-11.6%
United Kingdom	201299	3413	176553	204712	5	78651	91190	-13.8%	1495	1813	-17.5%	16389	18552	-11.7%
Sweden	115172	898	58602	116070	6	25220	29120	-13.4%	583	727	-19.8%	4943	5395	-8.4%
Norway	78158	533	26581	78691	7	11895	21300	-44.2%	324	568	-43.0%	2508	3956	-36.6%
Australia	75209	1283	46152	76492	8	36484	36230	0.7%	587	710	-17.3%	8911	8627	3.3%
Spain	73695	2290	24180	75985	9	22712	23886	-4.9%	577	1292	-55.3%	6696	6366	5.2%
Finland	55159	1271	21503	56430	10	20139	25332	-20.5%	356	684	-48.0%	5902	6809	-13.3%
Czech Republic	54068	2230	33060	56298	11	36034	26747	34.7%	514	391	31.5%	16982	14320	18.6%
Austria	46183	2776	31677	48959	12	19582	16539	18.4%	299	480	-37.7%	6309	5845	7.9%
Portugal	39332	1097	28098	40429	13	13542	17402	-22.2%	194	434	-55.3%	3374	3974	-15.1%
Poland	39177	737	16406	39914	14	11142	8384	32.9%	336	410	-18.0%	2923	2580	13.3%
Netherlands	35271	1482	47913	36753	15	27977	26219	6.7%	409	595	-31.3%	14480	12436	16.4%
Belgium	34608	1351	35859	35959	16	23456	20524	14.3%	417	816	-48.9%	7582	6479	17.0%
Denmark	31475	476	37991	31951	17	13554	14256	-4.9%	218	289	-24.6%	2680	2799	-4.3%
Switzerland	30609	1319	20283	31928	18	16444	13976	17.7%	267	236	13.1%	6285	5314	18.3%
New Zealand	30535	738	15927	31273	19	15215	16626	-8.5%	360	440	-18.2%	3440	3765	-8.6%
Japan	26465	701	8147	27166	20	3577	4622	-22.6%	171	216	-20.8%	624	761	-18.0%
Italy	26250	854	8095	27104	21	5186	5935	-12.6%	224	303	-26.1%	2200	2307	-4.6%
Slovakia	15133	429	8524	15562	22	6012	4690	28.2%	185	128	44.5%	2062	1794	14.9%
South Africa	14343	353	9712	14696	23	4885	5485	-10.9%	145	213	-31.9%	1451	1451	0.0%
Ireland	9554	190	6199	9744	24	2435	3296	-26.1%	70	123	-43.1%	749	909	-17.6%
Hungary	7741	236	2491	7977	25	2309	1481	55.9%	33	56	-41.1%	764	563	35.7%
South Korea	6195	14	9290	6209	26	528	608	-13.2%	25	77	-67.5%	84	99	-15.2%
Lithuania	6090	105	2989	6195	27	1804	1405	28.4%	46	64	-28.1%	481	436	10.3%
Croatia	5376	212	1528	5588	28	1159	843	37.5%	32	39	-17.9%	254	196	29.6%
Latvia	4702	282	4127	4984	29	2312	1965	17.7%	16	22	-27.3%	828	767	8.0%
Slovenia	4547	173	1181	4720	30	1560	1175	32.8%	51	10	410.0%	488	412	18.4%
Zimbabwe	298	20	72	318	67	12	39	-69.2%	1	6	-83.3%	7	21	-66.7%
Namibia	284	4	178	288	70	140	81	72.8%	1	1	0.0%	45	34	32.4%
Botswana	91	0	53	91	99	9	6	50.0%	0	0	#DIV/0!	8	10	-20.0%
Swaziland	59	0	27	59	115	10	12	-16.7%	0	0	#DIV/0!	7	8	-12.5%
Mozambique	44	1	31	45	132	9	3	200.0%	2	0	#DIV/0!	5	2	150.0%
Lesotho	24	1	22	25	160	9	4	125.0%	0	1	-100.0%	11	6	83.3%

1.6k · February 2, 2018

16 hours ago, GlobalRat said:

End January 2018

Very interesting. The difference in the number of finds for all these countries (and I believe it represents more than 95% of the world) is -4.5%. This is probably not statistically significant - the period is quite short and the number could have been influenced by the cold winter in the northern hemisphere

The total difference in the number of caches hidden, on the other hand, is -21.9%

Interestingly enough, the number of active cachers is +2.8%

We should revisit these numbers later in the year.

4.2k · February 5, 2018

My comments on our 2017 stats:

The total number of caches placed - lowest for 5 years! Hopefully we can turn that around
Cache finds - downward - but we'll need to see if that is a trend or just a normal anomaly
with over 180 Will Attend logs still needed (as of early Feb) for the possible MEGA in Gauteng - it seems like we need to do some major recruiting in the caching community in 2018
I do not believe that SA is anywhere near saturation level - if we look at a metro area like Durban - less than 50 odd regular cachers - this could easily hit the 500 mark to be comparable with Germany / US etc. - so with more cachers comes more caches. Similarly - areas like Newcastle ' Pietermaritzburg / East London / Rustenburg / Nelspruit / Witbank / Bloemfontein / Upington / Kimberley / Ladysmith / Bethlehem etc. - all large towns - with very few cachers. I still say cacher numbers are the issue - not number of caches
I personally don't have an issue with certain "big number" finders having few hides. It would be nice to have them hiding - but each and every one of us plays the game in the way it works for us.
Western Cape will remain the primary destination (tourists both international and local) - plus there are AWESOME cachers in the area - and some brilliant caches. I love caching there - and I'm a true blue Natalian. We all just need to co0ntiunue encouraging new cachers and placing new quality caches. The western Cape also lends itself to a more outdoorsy lifestyle.
Canary Islands got 60000 odd more finds for 2017! That is huge. I really hope we reverse this trend - it's good to be the biggest in Africa.
Interesting that Free State got almost twice the number of finds that KZN did (based on pie chart)
Alarming that 1902 cachers only logged a single cache (even if you half that for tourists) - it means new cachers don't see the point - QUALITY caches are the key to keep us old folks interested and attract newbies.
While an average finds of 18 caches sounds good - the median of 4 is bad - it means the large numbers of guys like geelvink and the others - are overshadowed by the huge numbers who do not change into regular cachers. We need to see new faces!
Just over 2 finds a month (28) places you in the top 10% of cache finders in SA!!!!!! Very alarming on cacher "stickiness"
We are having many many caches archived each year - agreed some may be archived too soon - but maintenance needs to be kept up on caches placed - or good quality caches that last need to be placed.

Letss get out there and break records in 2018 - let's grow our hobby

February 5, 2018

I agree with the point about recruitment. When we started it was like a secret society. If someone asked what you are doing you would think up some stupid excuse. We now tell muggles we are part of a world wide treasure hunt. Some loose interest when you tell them you don't win anything but some are interested.

We need to be more open about our sport and get more involved.

1.6k · February 6, 2018

2017 Statistics, part 8: Finds distribution

This should be read with part 6.

1902 cachers have found 1 South African cache during 2017
1112 cachers have found 2
761 cachers have found 3
585 cachers have found 4
418 cachers have found 5

4.2k · February 6, 2018

3 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said:

2017 Statistics, part 8: Finds distribution

This should be read with part 6.

1902 cachers have found 1 South African cache during 2017

1112 cachers have found 2

761 cachers have found 3

585 cachers have found 4

418 cachers have found 5

That's about 4500 newbies - or fringe players - take 1/2 away for tourists and we still end with well over 2000 local cachers with potential to grow into the next geelvink or PieterM - there are some awesome "new" cachers of just over a year or so who now have 1000+ cache finds - we need to grow more of these - even if they only convert to a 100+ finders per year.

1.6k · February 7, 2018

2017 Statistics, part 9: Cache owners who received the most find logs

A total of 1564 South African cache owners received at least 1 find log during 2017. The top 10 are:

 1.	BoazRuthFields: 3309 finds (2.39% of the total)
 2.	SKATTIE@1:      2657 finds (1.92%)
 3.	Panters:        2362 finds (1.71%)
 4.	ChrisDen:       2288 finds (1.66%)
 5.	iPajero:        2225 finds (1.61%)
 6.	Adventure_T:    2089 finds (1.51%)
 7.	Andredj:        1689 finds (1.22%)
 8.	die sousies:    1624 finds (1.18%)
 9.	PieterM:        1594 finds (1.15%)
10.	Sokkies73:      1559 finds (1.13%)

And, once again, the graph of the distribution of finds vs. the (sorted) percentage of owners has the typical 80% finds for the top 20% owners shape:

1.3k · February 9, 2018

Hides excludes Events and caches that have been archived

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February 23, 2018

It would be interesting to follow these stats as the year progress.

February 23, 2018

5 hours ago, Spesbona said:

It would be interesting to follow these stats as the year progress.

Agreed

February 24, 2018

On 2/23/2018 at 10:57 AM, Spesbona said:

It would be interesting to follow these stats as the year progress.

Could it possibly be done monthly?

1.3k · March 19, 2018

Hides excludes Events and caches that have been archived

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March 23, 2018

Thanks, will be interesting to see how things develop over the year.

March 24, 2018

Thanks for the update. Interesting to follow the progress. Looking forward to the next instalment to see how the Planetary Souvenir chasing effect the stats.

May 1, 2018

Love this forum! A job well done!

1.6k · June 27, 2018

Quick Cuppa Events

The 100th QC event was recently held. The first of these was in Feb. 2010; one every month, all in Pretoria and Centurion.

A total of 197 cachers attended at least one of them.

The average attendance was 18.6 per event, and the top attendance was 38 (QCXXXIV)

The top attendees are:

 1. Jors           100
 2. Leon St         93
 3. Wilduvo         89
 4. rodnjoan        84
 5. HeinG           77
 6. Cherokee.za     75
 7. dolos           64
 8. B and C Inc     61
 9. pannie&medusae  56
10. _LINK_          51

100 months in a row, without ever being on leave, ill, or otherwise occupied; remarkable!

June 27, 2018

Well done Jors.

1.6k · June 28, 2018

South African Events

For the year 28 June 2017 to 27 June 2018:

There were 287 events (of all types) in South Africa during the past year. (On average 5.5 events per week)
The event with the most attendees was GC71NF6 - Wilderness Camping Weekend, with 39 attendees
There were 4 events with only one attendee each: GC7AYNK, GC7BFHR, GC7H051 and GC7PFGR
The average attendance was 11.3 cachers per event
A total of 367 different cachers attended these events
The median was 4 events per cacher (of those who attended events)

The cachers who attended the most South African events during the past year:

 1. za pienaar family: 63
 2. Panthera03:	       58
 3. macaddikt:	       52
 4. GEO936:            51
 5. dolos:             50
 6. GForceZA:          43
 7. pieterix:          42
 8. ChrisDen:          41
 9. LuciaMPR:          39
    udjopa:            39

1.6k · June 29, 2018

South African Events, part 2

Unlike most other cache types, the number of new events in South Africa is still growing:

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(The numbers are for full years, ending on 27 June.)

The number of event attendees may have peaked:

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The growth of the number of attendees has not kept up with the events:

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1.6k · July 2, 2018

Most found South African caches

For the year ending 1 July 2018: (Top 10 plus the top of each province):

1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel CapeDoc Western Cape 284 finds
2. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista SawaSawa Western Cape 228 finds
3. GC7B84E Cape Town / Table Mountain Virtual Reward sparkey1964 Western Cape 195 finds
4. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove AndyT1 Western Cape 193 finds
5. GC62NFH Birth of a gentle giant scubie999 Western Cape 182 finds
6. GC7B8X0 Into 7th Heaven TeamDJ* Western Cape 138 finds
7. GCVDHN Sailors' Star vespax Western Cape 137 finds
8. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa Zephyr2 Western Cape 136 finds
9. GC78HNP Suspension Bridge TEAM SCHUTTE Eastern Cape 124 finds
10. GC6ZB58 SAS Somerset krazikatz Western Cape 119 finds
.
12. GC19QVQ Three Rondavels CrystalFairy Mpumalanga 116 finds
.
18. GC7CH1J Welcome to Johannesburg, South Africa KrokosZA Gauteng 98 finds
.
43. GC7666F Spruit Walk 2 Geoplacer1111 Free State 67 finds
.
65. GC693Y1 Jasmyn se Windpomp Bekster77 North West 55 finds
.
99. GC7A8BM Windmills CamoB0B Kwazulu Natal 51 finds
.
324. GC70E40 Pink Namzat Northern Cape 34 finds
.
424. GC642BH Plot 71 Marcob29 Limpopo 31 finds

1.6k · July 3, 2018

Top finders in South Africa

For all time, up to 2 July 2018:

 1. iPajero:       16092 finds
 2. rodnjoan:       7118 finds
 3. The Huskies:    7057 finds
 4. cownchicken:    6476 finds
 5. GorNat:         6265 finds
 6. Louise_Gerhard: 6232 finds
 7. Geelvink:       6128 finds
 8. SKATTIE@1:      5812 finds
 9. ChrisDen:       5677 finds
10. terunkie:       5648 finds

To put this into perspective, iPajero's 16092 finds is 1004 more than the current number of active caches in South Africa!

1.6k · July 4, 2018

Cache age

For active South African caches:

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The fact that there are more 3 year old caches than 1 year old, is cause for concern.

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What this graph means is that 20% of caches are younger than 1.7 years, 50% (the median) are younger than 3.9 years, 80% are younger than 7.4 years, etc.

The average age of all active South African caches is 4.6 years.

The oldest 1% are older than 13.3 years.

The oldest 100 are older than 14.2 years.

The oldest 25 are older than 16.5 years.

1.6k · July 5, 2018

New caches per year

All new South African caches published, for years ending on 30 June:

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This year is 32% down from the peak in 2014.

4.2k · July 23, 2018

Danie

Once again - a brilliant set of stats. thank you.

I really think we need to be doing more recruitment - and quality cache placement (not nanos for numbers) should be the aim fir all of us

July 23, 2018

We have just come back from a trip to Mpumalanga. What we enjoyed was the caches that were placed along a scenic route. Regardless of the nature of the cache . There are plenty in Barbeton/Nelspruit/White River. I just wish there were more places like that.

July 29, 2018

This is a very interesting chain of comments. Thank you for all your efforts Danie Viljoen.

August 9, 2018

Hello,

I am new here so I am not sure I post in a good place but perhaps you can help me somehow? this is my previous post that I published somewhere else.

Hello,

I am interested in geocaching statictics for Africa, particularly which country has the biggest/smalles number of caches. Is there any country without a cache.? Which country has the highest number of active geocachers ? Is there any country which has more ECs or mysteries than any other? Do you know if there is any place/website where I can see this statistics? Also is there any website with some trivia/ fact&figures about geocaching in Africa? I would like to get the info as I am preparing an event dedicated to geocaching in Africa and I want to make it as interesting as possible.

I will be grateful for your help.

Best regards

Bożena

1.6k · August 13, 2018

All of these questions have been answered before in this (or the old) statistics thread. I suggest you read through it; you may find other statistics that you can use.

Most caches: South Africa (currently 15172 active caches)
Fewest caches: Somalia: 0
Highest number of active geocachers: Continental Africa: South Africa. The Canary Islands (administered by Spain) had more cachers logging a cache during the last year, but I suspect the vast majority are European tourists
Most ECs: South Africa, by far (There are currently 406 active ECs in South Africa, vs. 509 in the rest of Africa, including the Canary Islands and Madeira)
Most Mystery caches: South Africa, by far. (There are currently 1737 active mystery caches in South Africa, vs. 611 in the rest of Africa.)
Other website: You can try https://project-gc.com

December 9, 2018

Sjoe Danie, you have not spoiled us for a while with your interesting posts....

Hope to see some new posts soon... :-)

December 20, 2018

I echo Sokkies73 sentiments ?. Hope we can see some new posts from the stats guru soon ?.

I'm especially interested to see whether there was a significant different in finds during the souvenir periods this year - did the Planetary Pursuit, Hidden Creatures and the You might be a geocacher if promotions have any effect?

1.6k · December 20, 2018

19 minutes ago, Delbadore said:

I'm especially interested to see whether there was a significant different in finds during the souvenir periods this year - did the Planetary Pursuit, Hidden Creatures and the You might be a geocacher if promotions have any effect?

When were these periods?

December 20, 2018

19 minutes ago, Danie Viljoen said:

When were these periods?

Planetary Pursuit: 19 March - 16 April

Hidden Creatures: 27 June - 25 July

You might be a geocacher if: September - December

1.6k · January 3, 2019

2018 Statistics, part 1: New caches

1969 new caches were placed in South Africa during 2018, 10.9% fewer than in 2017 (and 34.2% fewer than the peak in 2016).

This is an average of 5.4 new caches per day (vs. 8.2 per day in 2016).

January 3, 2019

Dankie Danie !

Ek weet dis moeite en neem tyd maar ek sien uit na nog statistieke.

1.6k · January 4, 2019

2018 Statistics, part 2: Finds

Another depressing picture - during 2018 124937 caches were found in South Africa, 10.9% fewer than in 2017, and 36.7% fewer than the peak in 2016.

This gives an average of 342 South African finds per day (vs. 539 per day in 2016)

1.6k · January 6, 2019

2018 Statistics, part 3: Finds per day of the year

The following graph shows the number of finds for each day of 2018 (red dots). The peak was 2172 finds on 1 October. It is interesting to note that this was not the date of the 2018 Jolly Jozi Jol mega (which was 2 days earlier). There were large numbers of finds on the Black Eagle GeoArt caches on that day; presumably these were logged by mega attendees. 1 October was only the 13th best day ever; the all-time record was 6759 finds on 23 July 2011.

The fewest finds last year was 61, on 24 May.

The average number of finds per day was 342, and the median was 233.

The green line represents the rolling average over a week (to filter out the week-end effect), and the blue line is the same as the green, but averaged over the last 5 years.

On 12/20/2018 at 9:52 AM, Delbadore said:

I'm especially interested to see whether there was a significant different in finds during the souvenir periods this year - did the Planetary Pursuit, Hidden Creatures and the You might be a geocacher if promotions have any effect?

If you compare the blue line with the green line, you should be able to see when there were above average numbers of finds. The souvenir periods do not seem to have had much of an effect; maybe around the beginning of April. Traditionally the school holidays had by far the largest effect on the number of finds.

Edited January 6, 2019 by Danie Viljoen

4.2k · January 7, 2019

Danie

You remain the guru - thank you - this is very valuable and interesting information.

January 7, 2019

Thanks Danie

Very interesting information indeed. On 1 October 2018 we were a group of 6 Capetonians that attempted/did our 400 finds per day, which also contributed to that huge spike on the day.

I saw an increase in new cachers finding my more accessible urban caches lately. Let's hope they stay in the game. And let's hope we see them at events and also placing caches of their own...

January 8, 2019

Thanks for the interesting new stats! Looking forward to what's coming next :drama:

1.6k · January 8, 2019

2018 Statistics, part 4: Most found RSA caches

 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel            Western Cape  235 finds
 2. GC7B84E Cape Town / Table Mountain Virtual Reward  Western Cape  221 finds
 3. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista                  Western Cape  216 finds
 4. GCMYYZ  Table Top Trove                            Western Cape  208 finds
 5. GC7DAJM 2018 Jolly Jozi Jol                        Gauteng       177 attended
 6. GC7B8X0 Into 7th Heaven                            Western Cape  173 finds
 7. GC62NFH Birth of a gentle giant                    Western Cape  161 finds
 8. GC78HNP Suspension Bridge                          Eastern Cape  149 finds
 9. GC77E   Cape Agulhas                               Western Cape  129 finds
10. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa                              Western Cape  127 finds
    GC7FWAZ Vertical Liftoff # 2                       Western Cape  127 finds
12. GC19QVQ Three Rondavels                            Mpumalanga    124 finds
13. GC7TDYF JJJ Giant Cabin (Biggest African Cache)    Gauteng       122 finds
14. GC7B71M Cape Light                                 Western Cape  118 finds
15. GC4H10K GOS: Whale Crier                           Western Cape  114 finds
16. GC707WR Nobel Square 2.5                           Western Cape  112 finds
17. GC7CH1J Welcome to Johannesburg, South Africa      Gauteng       112 finds
18. GC2JMBA SS: Cape Agulhas light                     Western Cape  111 finds
    GC79361 Prestwich Memorial Tribute and TB Hotel    Western Cape  111 finds
20. GC6ZB58 SAS Somerset                               Western Cape  109 finds
21. GCVDHN  Sailors' Star                              Western Cape  106 finds
22. GC3G9Z2 Mother City Meander Series - S.A. Museum   Western Cape  105 finds
23. GC4PG5C Bootcamp                                   Gauteng       100 finds
24. GC242A2 Chapman's Lookout v3.4                     Western Cape   96 finds
25. GC16GBB Ireland in South Africa                    Western Cape   92 finds

(I see that 2018 Jolly Jozi Jol got 177 logs; does that mean it lost its Mega status?)

Edited January 8, 2019 by Danie Viljoen

4.2k · January 8, 2019

Wow - only 200 finds a year - I'm sure this is also lower - even on a cache like Table Mtn - can you plot maximum (or perhaps "mode or average" for the top 10 caches over the past few years? I'm sure this is also significantly down?

January 8, 2019

2 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said:

2018 Statistics, part 4: Most found RSA caches

(I see that 2018 Jolly Jozi Jol got 177 logs; does that mean it lost its Mega status?)

See it's gone up slightly with 179 logs on the cache page. Yip, unfortunately the attendance was quite low compared to the 530 will attends. However, this was not out of the ordinary - CT Mega 595 will attends, 218 attended, KZN Mega 326 will attends, 177 attended. The first Mega was by far the best - 244 will attends, 212 attended.

1.6k · January 9, 2019

21 hours ago, Carbon Hunter said:

Wow - only 200 finds a year - I'm sure this is also lower - even on a cache like Table Mtn - can you plot maximum (or perhaps "mode or average" for the top 10 caches over the past few years? I'm sure this is also significantly down?

It is indeed lower, but not as much as the total (see part 2 above). The average yearly number of finds for the top 10 caches in 2018 was 16.6% down from the peak in 2015. (I suspect these very popular caches are less affected because they are mostly tourist caches.)

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1.6k · January 9, 2019

2018 Statistics, part 5: Favourite Points

The following 10 South African caches gained the most FPs during 2018:

 1. GC31WXR  Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel            City of Cape Town  51 FPs
 2. GC6JCHV  V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista                  City of Cape Town  49 FPs
 3. GC7TDYF  JJJ Giant Cabin (Biggest African Cache)    West Rand          44 FPs
 4. GC6ZB58  SAS Somerset                               City of Cape Town  29 FPs
 5. GC3WXRQ  MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan"        City of Tshwane    23 FPs
 6. GC79361  Prestwich Memorial Tribute and TB Hotel    City of Cape Town  22 FPs
 7. GC7B84E  Cape Town / Table Mountain Virtual Reward  City of Cape Town  21 FPs
 8. GC1ABZK  Table Mountain - Cape Town                 City of Cape Town  20 FPs
    GC7X3MJ  JJJ Light up the Dam                       West Rand          20 FPs
    GC7X4JN  JJJ Block Buster                           West Rand          20 FPs

And these South African caches currently have the most FPs:

 1. GC31WXR  Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel            City of Cape Town  586 FPs
 2. GC3WXRQ  MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan"        City of Tshwane    175 FPs
 3. GC1ABZK  Table Mountain - Cape Town                 City of Cape Town  153 FPs
 4. GC2D9WC  SS: Lusitania                              City of Cape Town  131 FPs
 5. GCVDHN   Sailors' Star                              City of Cape Town  117 FPs
 6. GC2CG7X  Hiddingh Security TB Hotel                 City of Cape Town  116 FPs
 7. GCMYYZ   Table Top Trove                            City of Cape Town  109 FPs
 8. GC5Y00Q  Tardis                                     City of Cape Town  107 FPs
 9. GC1H9WR  2 Oceans                                   Overberg           103 FPs
    GC5BWV4  UP PERISCOPE                               City of Cape Town  103 FPs

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