Distance from Buenos Aires to Cape Town
The great-circle distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Cape Town, South Africa is 6,869 km (4,268 mi · 3,709 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 6,869 km · 4,268 mi · 3,709 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Cape Town
- 114° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Buenos Aires
- 245° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 8 h 44 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Cape Town UTC+02:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 308 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:42 UTC / 21:18 UTC
- Cape Town
- -33.9258, 18.4232
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:34 UTC / 16:12 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.