✈ CPT → DEL
11H 48M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Cape Town to Delhi
From Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa → Indira Gandhi (DEL), India Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Delhi → Cape Town
How long is the flight from Cape Town to Delhi?
A nonstop flight from Cape Town (CPT) to Delhi (DEL) takes about 11 hours 48 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,768 miles (9,282 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 48m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,768 mi
9,282 km · great-circle
Avg speed
787 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Delhi timezone
UTC+5:30
Asia/Kolkata
Time difference
+3.5h
3h 30m ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~3.5d
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 Asia
Flights to Delhi
Nearest origins
- Mumbai → Delhi
- Dubai → Delhi
- Abu Dhabi → Delhi
- Doha → Delhi
- Bangkok → Delhi
- Hong Kong → Delhi
- Beijing → Delhi
- Kuala Lumpur → Delhi
- Tel Aviv → Delhi
- Singapore → Delhi
Long-haul to Delhi
- Santiago → Delhi
- Buenos Aires → Delhi
- Mexico City → Delhi
- São Paulo → Delhi
- Cancun → Delhi
- Rio de Janeiro → Delhi
- Miami → Delhi
- Dallas → Delhi
- Los Angeles → Delhi
- Atlanta → Delhi