Distance from Cape Town to Jakarta
The great-circle distance between Cape Town, South Africa and Jakarta, Indonesia is 9,477 km (5,889 mi · 5,117 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
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
- 353 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
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:43 UTC / 10:49 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.