Kigali to Johannesburg flight

Flights from Kigali to Johannesburg start at €234.96 and take 7h 8m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Kigali to Johannesburg starts at €234.96 and takes 7h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,786 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 7, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 8mDoor to door
  • 3h 58mMoving
  • €305.17 to €584.24From
  • 06:00 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 685.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 7, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€305.17 to €584.24 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €544.71Sat19
  2. about €584.24Sun20
  3. about €403.11Mon21
  4. about €374.20Tue22
  5. about €387.77Wed23
  6. about €561.23Thu24
  7. about €397.21Fri25
  8. about €416.68Sat26
  9. about €325.82Sun27
  10. about €305.17Mon28
  11. about €319.92Tue29
  12. about €313.43Wed30
  13. about €341.75Thu1
  14. about €334.67Fri2

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 7, 2026

Cheapest€234.96
  1. Rwandair Express RE432907:302h 32m10:02Kigali KGLLusaka LUN
  2. Airlink (SAA) AS402610:522h 2m12:54Lusaka LUNJohannesburg JNB

Changes at Lusaka, with 50 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 8h 34mCO2 686.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€300.45
  1. Rwandair Express RE104206:003h 58m09:58Kigali KGLJohannesburg JNB

Door to door 7h 8mCO2 685.4 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€374.79
  1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KL915207:3055m09:25Kigali KGLEntebbe EBB
  2. Uganda Airlines UA787910:474h 16m14:03Entebbe EBBJohannesburg JNB

Changes at Entebbe, with 82 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 43mCO2 539.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Rwandair Express€237.917h 5m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Rwandair Express

The flight gets you into Johannesburg. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Johannesburg for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Johannesburg Park Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Kigali to Johannesburg

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €285.1190 days
  2. €193.0760 days
  3. €203.6945 days
  4. €249.1230 days
  5. €335.8521 days
  6. €334.6714 days
  7. €397.217 days
  8. €403.113 days
  9. €544.711 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €193.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 182 percent. The most expensive point is €544.71, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €325.82Sun
  2. €305.17Mon
  3. €319.92Tue
  4. €313.43Wed
  5. €341.75Thu
  6. €335.85Fri
  7. €416.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Kigali

Air
  • KGL

Johannesburg

Air
  • JNB
  • HLA
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,786 km against 2,705 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Lusaka, Nairobi, Entebbe, Dar es Salaam. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Kigali at 06:00 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Kigali to Johannesburg

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg take?

The Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg takes 7h 8m door to door, of which 3h 58m is spent moving. The route runs 2,786 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.

How much does the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg cost?

The Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg starts at €234.96 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €309.30. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg?

1 operators run the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg: Rwandair Express. Between them they file around 5 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.

Which terminal does the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg use?

The Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg leaves from Kigali KGL and arrives at Johannesburg JNB. 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.

When should I book the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg?

Fares for the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €193.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg produce?

The Flight from Kigali to Johannesburg produces about 685.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2786 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Kigali to Johannesburg on September 18, 2026: 2786 km of route against 2705 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €234.96, and 7h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Johannesburg is large, and the road in from JNB can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

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A car waiting when you land in Johannesburg

Settled in advance, so the ride into Johannesburg costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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