Distance from Cape Town to Madrid
Flying the shortest possible route, Madrid lies 8,572 km (5,327 miles, 4,629 nautical miles) from Cape Town — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,572 km · 5,327 mi · 4,629 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Madrid
- 343° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Madrid → Cape Town
- 161° (SSE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 45 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Madrid UTC+02:00 (+0 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 14 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
- Madrid
- 40.4165, -3.7026
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:19 UTC / 19:23 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.