✈ CPT → IST
10H 47M, 5,239 MI. THE AIRLINE OWES YOU SOMETHING. THEY WON'T GIVE IT.
Flight from Cape Town to Istanbul
From Cape Town International (CPT), South Africa Africa → Istanbul Airport (IST), Turkey Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Istanbul → Cape Town
How long is the flight from Cape Town to Istanbul?
A nonstop flight from Cape Town (CPT) to Istanbul (IST) takes about 10 hours 47 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,239 miles (8,431 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 47m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,239 mi
8,431 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cape Town timezone
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
Istanbul timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Istanbul
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.
Flights from Cape Town
- Cape Town → Johannesburg
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- 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 → Santiago
- Cape Town → Casablanca
- Cape Town → Athens
- Cape Town → Mumbai
- Cape Town → Rome
- Cape Town → Barcelona
- Cape Town → Lisbon
- Cape Town → Madrid
- Cape Town → Bucharest
- Cape Town → Milan
Flights to Istanbul
- Bucharest → Istanbul
- Athens → Istanbul
- Budapest → Istanbul
- Tel Aviv → Istanbul
- Vienna → Istanbul
- Cairo → Istanbul
- Warsaw → Istanbul
- Rome → Istanbul
- Prague → Istanbul
- Munich → Istanbul
- Milan → Istanbul
- Berlin → Istanbul
- Zurich → Istanbul
- Frankfurt → Istanbul
- Copenhagen → Istanbul
- Helsinki → Istanbul
- Brussels → Istanbul
- Stockholm → Istanbul
- Amsterdam → Istanbul
- Paris → Istanbul