✈ SCL → CPT
10H 14M FLIGHT. TWO MOVIES, NO SLEEP, ONE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
Flight from Santiago to Cape Town
From Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL), Chile South America → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → Santiago
How long is the flight from Santiago to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from Santiago (SCL) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 10 hours 14 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,950 miles (7,967 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 14m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
4,950 mi
7,967 km · great-circle
Avg speed
778 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Santiago timezone
UTC-4
America/Santiago
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Time difference
+6h
6 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~6d
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 Santiago
Nearest destinations
- Santiago → Buenos Aires
- Santiago → São Paulo
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Cancun
- Santiago → Mexico City
- Santiago → Miami
- Santiago → Atlanta
- Santiago → Dallas
- Santiago → New York
- Santiago → Boston
Long-haul from Santiago
- Santiago → Beijing
- Santiago → Shanghai
- Santiago → Hong Kong
- Santiago → Taipei
- Santiago → Seoul
- Santiago → Bangkok
- Santiago → Osaka
- Santiago → Manila
- Santiago → Tokyo
- Santiago → Delhi
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