The town is one of the most visited coastal destinations within South Africa, and home to many travellers experiences.

As part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, the town also holds great Fynbos diversity.

Stilbaai is host to a number of interesting archaeological sites, including ancient fish traps thought to have been built by early ancestors of the Khoi people of the Southern Cape, and a shell landfill that has been carbon dated to around 1000 BC.

Artifacts found at Blombos have been carbon dated to around 77,000 BP, making it the oldest known human settlement today.

Stilbaai has a temperate climate and receives almost the same amount of rainfall in all four seasons, with peaks in autumn and spring.