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title: "Flights to Johannesburg: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Johannesburg, South Africa, from 8 cities — 1,272 km at the nearest, 13,583 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/johannesburg
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South Africa · Africa

# 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.

| From                                                    |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Cape Town](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-cpt) | CPT | 1,272 km  | 2h 05m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Nairobi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-nbo)   | NBO | 2,912 km  | 4h 07m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Mauritius](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-mru) | MRU | 3,066 km  | 4h 19m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-jnb)     | DXB | 6,413 km  | 8h 28m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-jnb)  | IST | 7,496 km  | 9h 49m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-jnb) | FRA | 8,690 km  | 11h 18m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-jnb)    | LHR | 9,075 km  | 11h 47m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Atlanta](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-atl)   | ATL | 13,583 km | 17h 23m   | eastbound — 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.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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