✈ WAW → CPT
12H 9M IN A METAL TUBE. 5,953 MILES. EARN THE LEG.
Flight from Warsaw to Cape Town
From Chopin (WAW), Poland Europe → Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cape Town → Warsaw
How long is the flight from Warsaw to Cape Town?
A nonstop flight from Warsaw (WAW) to Cape Town (CPT) takes about 12 hours 9 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,953 miles (9,580 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 9m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,953 mi
9,580 km · great-circle
Avg speed
788 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Warsaw timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Warsaw
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Time difference
Same
Same time zone
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 Warsaw
Nearest destinations
- Warsaw → Berlin
- Warsaw → Prague
- Warsaw → Budapest
- Warsaw → Vienna
- Warsaw → Copenhagen
- Warsaw → Munich
- Warsaw → Stockholm
- Warsaw → Frankfurt
- Warsaw → Bucharest
- Warsaw → Helsinki
Long-haul from Warsaw
- Warsaw → Auckland
- Warsaw → Sydney
- Warsaw → Melbourne
- Warsaw → Santiago
- Warsaw → Buenos Aires
- Warsaw → Bali (Denpasar)
- Warsaw → São Paulo
- Warsaw → Rio de Janeiro
- Warsaw → Mexico City
- Warsaw → Los Angeles
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
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