The present invention provides a
coaxial cable and a cable
assembly which are difficult to produce a reduction in
shielding effect and difficult to produce a sharp attenuation in a predetermined
frequency band. A shield layer (4) has a transverse-wound shield portion (41) in which a plurality of
metal wires (411) are spirally wound so as to cover the periphery of an insulator (3), and a one-plating portion (42) formed by hot-dip plating which covers the periphery of the transverse-wound shield portion (41), the shield layer (4) having a separation portion (46) in which circumferentially adjacent
metal wires (411) are separated from each other, in the separation portion (46) existing at a local site in the cable length direction, having a non-joining portion (44) in which the adjacent
metal wires (411) are not joined to each other by the one-plating portion (42), the length of the non-joining portion (44) in the cable length direction being shorter than the winding
pitch of the transverse-wound shield portion (41).