Cape Town (CPT) to Istanbul (IST): 5,239 miles (8,431 km) great-circle, about 11h 00m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $671 round-trip on Qatar, with 1 stop, departing May 14, 2026.
$671 round-trip, Qatar QR1372, departing 2026-05-14 at 19:30, returning 2026-05-28. The recorded itinerary left on a Thursday, returning on a Thursday 14 nights later; the fare was observed 19 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $671, it ranked 12th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 12.8 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Belgrade (5,445 mi) at $1551 and Tbilisi (5,488 mi) at $1110.
Qatar had the cheapest fare on 9 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 11th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 117 departure airports with a fare to Istanbul, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 65th at $671. Lowest: $60 from Antalya (AYT); highest: $1639 from Wellington (WLG); 29 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Pegasus Airlines (13), Qatar (7), WestJet (6), Wizz Air (6), Gulf Air (5) and Turkish (5), plus 51 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Europe/Istanbul; flight time is our estimate.