✈ DUB → CPT
DUBLIN → CAPE TOWN IN 12H 40M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Dublin to Cape Town
From Dublin Airport (DUB), Ireland Europe → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → Dublin
How long is the flight from Dublin to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from Dublin (DUB) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 12 hours 40 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,219 miles (10,009 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 40m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,219 mi
10,009 km · great-circle
Avg speed
790 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Dublin timezone
UTC+1
Europe/Dublin
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
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 Dublin
Nearest destinations
- Dublin → Manchester
- Dublin → Edinburgh
- Dublin → London
- Dublin → Amsterdam
- Dublin → Brussels
- Dublin → Paris
- Dublin → Frankfurt
- Dublin → Zurich
- Dublin → Copenhagen
- Dublin → Oslo
Long-haul from Dublin
- Dublin → Auckland
- Dublin → Sydney
- Dublin → Melbourne
- Dublin → Bali (Denpasar)
- Dublin → Santiago
- Dublin → Singapore
- Dublin → Buenos Aires
- Dublin → Manila
- Dublin → Kuala Lumpur
- Dublin → Taipei
More flights to Africa
Flights to Cape Town
Nearest origins
- 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 → Cape Town
Long-haul to 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 → Cape Town