✈ CPT → OTP
CAPE TOWN → BUCHAREST IN 11H 11M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Cape Town to Bucharest
From Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa → Henri Coandă (OTP), Romania Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Bucharest → Cape Town
How long is the flight from Cape Town to Bucharest?
A nonstop flight from Cape Town (CPT) to Bucharest (OTP) takes about 11 hours 11 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,446 miles (8,765 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 11m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,446 mi
8,765 km · great-circle
Avg speed
784 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Bucharest timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Bucharest
Time difference
+1h
1 hour ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~1d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Cape Town
Nearest destinations
- Cape Town → Johannesburg
- Cape Town → Nairobi
- Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro
- Cape Town → São Paulo
- Cape Town → Buenos Aires
- Cape Town → Cairo
- Cape Town → Doha
- Cape Town → Abu Dhabi
- Cape Town → Tel Aviv
- Cape Town → Dubai
Long-haul from Cape Town
- Cape Town → San Francisco
- Cape Town → Vancouver
- Cape Town → Seattle
- Cape Town → Los Angeles
- Cape Town → Las Vegas
- Cape Town → Tokyo
- Cape Town → Osaka
- Cape Town → Dallas
- Cape Town → Mexico City
- Cape Town → Chicago
More flights to Europe
Flights to Bucharest
Nearest origins
- Istanbul → Bucharest
- Budapest → Bucharest
- Athens → Bucharest
- Vienna → Bucharest
- Warsaw → Bucharest
- Prague → Bucharest
- Rome → Bucharest
- Munich → Bucharest
- Berlin → Bucharest
- Milan → Bucharest
Long-haul to Bucharest
- Auckland → Bucharest
- Sydney → Bucharest
- Melbourne → Bucharest
- Santiago → Bucharest
- Buenos Aires → Bucharest
- Mexico City → Bucharest
- Bali (Denpasar) → Bucharest
- Los Angeles → Bucharest
- São Paulo → Bucharest
- San Francisco → Bucharest