✈ LAX → CPT
19H 54M FLIGHT. YOU WILL FORGET WHAT GRASS LOOKS LIKE.
Flight from Los Angeles to Cape Town
From LAX (LAX), USA North America → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → Los Angeles
How long is the flight from Los Angeles to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 19 hours 54 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 9,992 miles (16,080 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
19h 54m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
9,992 mi
16,080 km · great-circle
Avg speed
808 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Time difference
+9h
9 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~9d
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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Long-haul from Los Angeles
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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
- 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
- Las Vegas → Cape Town
- Tokyo → Cape Town
- Osaka → Cape Town
- Dallas → Cape Town
- Mexico City → Cape Town
- Chicago → Cape Town
- Seoul → Cape Town