✈ CPT → MAD
10H 58M, 5,335 MI. THE AIRLINE OWES YOU SOMETHING. THEY WON'T GIVE IT.
Flight from Cape Town to Madrid
From Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa → Barajas (MAD), Spain Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Madrid → Cape Town
How long is the flight from Cape Town to Madrid?
A nonstop flight from Cape Town (CPT) to Madrid (MAD) takes about 10 hours 58 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,335 miles (8,586 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 58m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,335 mi
8,586 km · great-circle
Avg speed
783 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Madrid timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Madrid
Time difference
Same
Same time zone
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 Madrid
Nearest origins
- Barcelona → Madrid
- Lisbon → Madrid
- Casablanca → Madrid
- Paris → Madrid
- Milan → Madrid
- Zurich → Madrid
- London → Madrid
- Brussels → Madrid
- Rome → Madrid
- Frankfurt → Madrid
Long-haul to Madrid
- Auckland → Madrid
- Sydney → Madrid
- Melbourne → Madrid
- Bali (Denpasar) → Madrid
- Manila → Madrid
- Singapore → Madrid
- Kuala Lumpur → Madrid
- Tokyo → Madrid
- Taipei → Madrid
- Santiago → Madrid