Distance from Cape Town to Jakarta
Cape Town (South Africa) and Jakarta (Indonesia) are 9,477 km apart — that's 5,889 miles or 5,117 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,477 km · 5,889 mi · 5,117 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Jakarta
- 94° (E)
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Cape Town
- 236° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 48 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Jakarta UTC+07:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 391 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
- 05:34 UTC / 16:12 UTC
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 10:55 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.