✈ JNB → OTP
10H 7M FLIGHT. TWO MOVIES, NO SLEEP, ONE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
Flight from Johannesburg to Bucharest
From O.R. Tambo (JNB), South Africa Africa → Henri Coandă (OTP), Romania Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Bucharest → Johannesburg
How long is the flight from Johannesburg to Bucharest?
A nonstop flight from Johannesburg (JNB) to Bucharest (OTP) takes about 10 hours 7 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,888 miles (7,866 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 7m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
4,888 mi
7,866 km · great-circle
Avg speed
778 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg
Nearest destinations
- Johannesburg → Cape Town
- Johannesburg → Nairobi
- Johannesburg → Doha
- Johannesburg → Cairo
- Johannesburg → Abu Dhabi
- Johannesburg → Dubai
- Johannesburg → Tel Aviv
- Johannesburg → Mumbai
- Johannesburg → Athens
- Johannesburg → Rio de Janeiro
Long-haul from Johannesburg
- Johannesburg → San Francisco
- Johannesburg → Los Angeles
- Johannesburg → Seattle
- Johannesburg → Vancouver
- Johannesburg → Las Vegas
- Johannesburg → Dallas
- Johannesburg → Mexico City
- Johannesburg → Chicago
- Johannesburg → Atlanta
- Johannesburg → Tokyo
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