Distance from Cape Town to Mumbai
The great-circle distance between Cape Town, South Africa and Mumbai, India is 8,243 km (5,122 mi · 4,451 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,243 km · 5,122 mi · 4,451 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Mumbai
- 53° (NE)
- Initial bearing Mumbai → Cape Town
- 225° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 21 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Mumbai UTC+05:30 (+3.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 217 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
- Mumbai
- 19.0728, 72.8826
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:58 UTC / 13:05 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.