Cape Town (CPT) to Belgrade (BEG): 5,445 miles (8,763 km) great-circle, about 11h 25m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $1551 round-trip on Ethiopian, with 2 stops, departing May 16, 2026.
$1551 round-trip, Ethiopian ET846, departing 2026-05-16 at 15:10, returning 2026-05-17. The recorded itinerary left on a Saturday, returning on a Sunday 1 night later; the fare was observed 21 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $1551, it ranked 30th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 28.5 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Tbilisi (5,488 mi) at $1110 and Istanbul (5,239 mi) at $671.
CPT to BEG is the only one of 30 CPT routes where Ethiopian priced cheapest. It is the 10th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 36 departure airports with a fare to Belgrade, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 35th at $1551. Lowest: $80 from Rome (FCO); highest: $1665 from Buenos Aires (EZE); 11 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): easyJet (6), Wizz Air (6), Vueling (4), Ryanair (3), Wizz Air Malta (3) and Air Serbia (2), plus 10 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Europe/Belgrade; flight time is our estimate.