✈ LHR → CPT
12H 17M, 6,015 MI. THE AIRLINE OWES YOU SOMETHING. THEY WON'T GIVE IT.
Flight from London to Cape Town
From Heathrow (LHR), United Kingdom Europe → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → London
How long is the flight from London to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from London (LHR) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 12 hours 17 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,015 miles (9,681 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 17m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,015 mi
9,681 km · great-circle
Avg speed
789 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
London timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
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.
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Flights to Cape Town
Nearest origins
- Johannesburg → Cape Town
- Nairobi → Cape Town
- Rio de Janeiro → Cape Town
- São Paulo → Cape Town
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- 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