✈ FRA → CPT
11H 56M FROM FRANKFURT TO CAPE TOWN. THIS IS A LIFESTYLE NOW.
Flight from Frankfurt to Cape Town
From Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Germany Europe → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → Frankfurt
How long is the flight from Frankfurt to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from Frankfurt (FRA) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 11 hours 56 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,837 miles (9,393 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 56m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,837 mi
9,393 km · great-circle
Avg speed
787 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Frankfurt timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Berlin
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
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 Frankfurt
Nearest destinations
- Frankfurt → Zurich
- Frankfurt → Munich
- Frankfurt → Brussels
- Frankfurt → Amsterdam
- Frankfurt → Prague
- Frankfurt → Berlin
- Frankfurt → Paris
- Frankfurt → Milan
- Frankfurt → Vienna
- Frankfurt → London
Long-haul from Frankfurt
- Frankfurt → Auckland
- Frankfurt → Sydney
- Frankfurt → Melbourne
- Frankfurt → Santiago
- Frankfurt → Bali (Denpasar)
- Frankfurt → Buenos Aires
- Frankfurt → Manila
- Frankfurt → Singapore
- Frankfurt → Kuala Lumpur
- Frankfurt → São Paulo
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