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title: "CPT — Cape Town Airport, Cape Town · Orbit"
description: "Cape Town International Airport (CPT/FACT) serves Cape Town, South Africa. Opened 1954, 10.7 million passengers in 2017, 18 km from Cape Town."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cpt
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Cape Town · South Africa · Africa

# CPT — Cape Town

Cape Town International Airport serves Cape Town, South Africa, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 34.0°S, 18.6°E. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
CPT
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
FACT
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1954
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
10.7M
in 2017

## History & name

Cape Town International Airport opened in 1954 and is operated by Airports Company South Africa. It lies 18 km from Cape Town, has two runways with the longest at 3,201 m, and recorded 10.7 million passengers in 2017.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%5FTown%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q854130)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Cape Town International Airport

**Serves**
Cape Town, South Africa

**City centre**
18 km from Cape Town

**Opened**
1954

**Operator**
Airports Company South Africa

**Passengers**
10.7 million in 2017

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,201 m

**Elevation**
151 ft (46 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-33.97400,18.60430)

**Website**
[airports.co.za ↗](https://www.airports.co.za/airports/cape-town-international-airport)

## Where it sits

34.0°S, 18.6°E puts CPT in the southern hemisphere, 3,778 km from the equator and 6,230 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **633rd** most northerly, which makes it the 29th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 34.0°N, 161.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Lihue (LIH) in United States, still 1,349 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **George** (GRJ), 348 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from CPT

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 9,682 km.

| To                                                         |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-cpt) | JNB | 1,272 km | 2h 05m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-cpt)       | LHR | 9,682 km | 12h 32m   |

[Distance from CPT to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=CPT&to=LHR) [Map a trip from CPT →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CPT-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure CPT to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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