Addis Ababa (ADD) to Cape Town (CPT): 3,250 miles (5,230 km) great-circle, about 7h 00m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $708 round-trip on Ethiopian, with 1 stop, departing May 16, 2026.
$708 round-trip, Ethiopian ET7201, departing 2026-05-16 at 08:45, returning 2026-05-24. The recorded itinerary left on a Saturday, returning on a Sunday 8 nights later; the fare was observed 21 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $708, it ranked 10th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from ADD (median $825). That is 21.8 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the ADD median of 26.5 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from ADD of similar length: Moscow (3,248 mi) at $692 and Minsk (3,160 mi) at $1091.
Ethiopian had the cheapest fare on 10 of 30 ADD routes. It is the 13th longest of the 30 routes we track from ADD.
Of 4 departure airports with a fare to Cape Town, Addis Ababa (ADD) ranked 3rd at $708. Lowest: $224 from Johannesburg (JNB); highest: $1533 from Reykjavik (KEF); 1 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Airlink (1), Ethiopian (1), TAAG Angola Airlines (1) and Wizz Air (1).
The reverse, Cape Town (CPT) to Addis Ababa (ADD), was $956 round-trip on South African Airways, 1 stop, departing May 25, 2026. Cape Town to Addis Ababa flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Addis_Ababa, Africa/Johannesburg; flight time is our estimate.