Distance from Cape Town to Delhi
Cape Town (South Africa) and Delhi (India) are 9,308 km apart — that's 5,784 miles or 5,026 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,308 km · 5,784 mi · 5,026 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Delhi
- 49° (NE)
- Initial bearing Delhi → Cape Town
- 226° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 37 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Delhi UTC+05:30 (+3.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 235 min — the sun rises later in Cape Town
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
- Cape Town
- -33.9258, 18.4232
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:36 UTC / 16:44 UTC
- Delhi
- 28.6519, 77.2315
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:40 UTC / 12:48 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.