Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town, South Africa — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from CPT
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 1,272 km | 2h 00m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 1,277 km | 2h 00m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 4,101 km | 5h 31m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 4,117 km | 5h 32m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,788 km | 6h 22m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,823 km | 6h 25m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,927 km | 6h 32m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 5,011 km | 6h 39m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 5,230 km | 6h 55m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 6,087 km | 7h 59m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 6,351 km | 8h 19m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 6,560 km | 8h 34m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 6,886 km | 8h 58m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 7,144 km | 9h 18m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 9,682 km | 12h 27m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 12,561 km | 16h 01m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 16,080 km | 20h 24m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 7,644 km | 9h 55m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 9,363 km | 12h 03m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 9,688 km | 12h 27m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 9,393 km | 12h 05m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 9,667 km | 12h 26m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 11,837 km | 15h 07m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 14,781 km | 18h 47m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 13,654 km | 17h 23m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 8,431 km | 10h 54m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 7,453 km | 9h 41m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 10,989 km | 14h 04m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 13,710 km | 17h 27m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 12,967 km | 16h 32m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CPT
What is the airport code for Cape Town?
Cape Town International Airport uses the IATA code CPT and the ICAO code FACT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Cape Town International Airport?
It sits at 33.9740° S, 18.6043° E, serving Cape Town in South Africa, at an elevation of 151 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
