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✈ YVR → JNB

20H 21M FROM VANCOUVER TO JOHANNESBURG. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.

Flight time
20h 21m
Distance
10,231 mi
Or
16,465 km
Jet lag
9h

Flight from Vancouver to Johannesburg

From YVR (YVR), Canada North America  →  O.R. Tambo (JNB), South Africa Africa

↔ Flying the other way? Johannesburg → Vancouver

How long is the flight from Vancouver to Johannesburg?

A nonstop flight from Vancouver (YVR) to Johannesburg (JNB) takes about 20 hours 21 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 10,231 miles (16,465 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.

Avg flight time

20h 21m

Nonstop, scheduled

Distance

10,231 mi

16,465 km · great-circle

Avg speed

809 km/h

Door-to-door including taxi

Time zones & jet lag

Vancouver timezone

UTC-7

America/Vancouver

Johannesburg 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.

✈ Flight 2437 kg CO₂
🚗 Car (alone) 2816 kg CO₂
🚆 Train 675 kg CO₂

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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