Flights from Delhi to Cape Town start at €766.55 and take 18h 39m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Delhi to Cape Town starts at €766.55 and takes 18h 39m door to door, run by 4 operators over 9,828 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 13, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€917.59 to €2,141.84 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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Ethiopian Airlines EA386107:306h 45m11:45Indira Gandhi International Airport DELAddis Ababa Bole International Airport ADDEthiopian Airlines EA188913:208h 9m20:29Addis Ababa Bole International Airport ADDCape Town International Airport CPTChanges at Addis Ababa, with 95 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 19h 39mCO2 2959.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Kenya Airways KA908907:308h 13m13:13Indira Gandhi International Airport DELJomo Kenyatta International Airport NBOKenya Airways KA921914:196h 10m19:29Jomo Kenyatta International Airport NBOCape Town International Airport CPTChanges at Nairobi, with 66 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 18h 39mCO2 2879.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
IndiGo Airlines IG204307:303h 27m09:27Indira Gandhi International Airport DELDubai International Airport DXB
Emirates E801110:3011h 32m20:02Dubai International Airport DXBCape Town International Airport CPTChanges at Dubai, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 19h 12mCO2 2778.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
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The Flight from Delhi to Cape Town takes 18h 39m door to door, of which 14h 23m is spent moving. The route runs 9,828 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Delhi to Cape Town starts at €766.55 for one passenger, as of September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €885.14. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
4 operators run the Flight from Delhi to Cape Town: Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, IndiGo Airlines, Emirates. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Delhi to Cape Town leaves from Indira Gandhi International Airport DEL and arrives at Cape Town International Airport CPT. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Flight from Delhi to Cape Town bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €721.12. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 197 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Delhi to Cape Town produces about 2872.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 9828 km, which works out at roughly 292 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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Cape Town is large, and the road in from CPT can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Cape Town costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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18h 39m
14h 23m
€917.59 to €2,141.84
07:30 to 07:30
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2872.3 kg
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