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Flights to Johannesburg: how far it is, and from where

Johannesburg sits at 26.1°S, 28.2°E, served by O.R. Tambo (JNB). Below are 8 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
8
in the catalogue
Nearest
1,272 km
from Cape Town
Furthest
13,583 km
from Atlanta
Airports
1
JNB

How far Johannesburg is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
Cape TownCPT1,272 km2h 05mbarely any time shift
NairobiNBO2,912 km4h 07mbarely any time shift
MauritiusMRU3,066 km4h 19mwestbound — the easier direction
DubaiDXB6,413 km8h 28mwestbound — the easier direction
IstanbulIST7,496 km9h 49mbarely any time shift
FrankfurtFRA8,690 km11h 18meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR9,075 km11h 47meastbound — the harder direction
AtlantaATL13,583 km17h 23meastbound — the harder direction

What Johannesburg adds to a map

Johannesburg puts a pin in South Africa, and Africa is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Atlanta, is 13,583 km: 33.9% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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