Nairobi (NBO) to Cape Town (CPT): 2,548 miles (4,101 km) great-circle, about 5h 35m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $568 round-trip on TAAG Angola Airlines, with 1 stop, departing May 1, 2026.
$568 round-trip, TAAG Angola Airlines DT593, departing 2026-05-01 at 06:10, returning 2026-05-07. The recorded itinerary left on a Friday, returning on a Thursday 6 nights later; the fare was observed 6 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $568, it ranked 13th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from NBO (median $615). That is 22.3 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the NBO median of 26.4 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from NBO of similar length: Mumbai (2,817 mi) at $537 and Muscat (2,241 mi) at $443.
NBO to CPT is the only one of 30 NBO routes where TAAG Angola Airlines priced cheapest. It is the 17th longest of the 30 routes we track from NBO.
Of 4 departure airports with a fare to Cape Town, Nairobi (NBO) ranked 2nd at $568. 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).
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Nairobi, Africa/Johannesburg; flight time is our estimate.