Cape Town (CPT) to Johannesburg (JNB): 790 miles (1,272 km) great-circle, about 2h 05m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $284 round-trip on airline GE, nonstop, departing May 1, 2026.
$284 round-trip, airline GE GE2034, departing 2026-05-01 at 19:00, returning 2026-05-13. The recorded itinerary left on a Friday, returning on a Wednesday 12 nights later; the fare was observed 6 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $284, it ranked 4th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 35.9 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Durban (794 mi) at $301 and Walvis Bay (797 mi) at $531.
airline GE had the cheapest fare on 2 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 27th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 5 departure airports with a fare to Johannesburg, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 1st at $284. Lowest: $284 from Cape Town (CPT); highest: $1745 from Cancun (CUN); 1 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): TAAG Angola Airlines (2), Air Tanzania (1), airline E9 (1) and airline GE (1).
The reverse, Johannesburg (JNB) to Cape Town (CPT), was $224 round-trip on Airlink, nonstop, departing July 10, 2026. Johannesburg to Cape Town flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Africa/Johannesburg; flight time is our estimate.