Distance from Cape Town to Seoul
The great-circle distance between Cape Town, South Africa and Seoul, South Korea is 13,714 km (8,522 mi · 7,405 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,714 km · 8,522 mi · 7,405 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Seoul
- 64° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Cape Town
- 250° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 16 h 48 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 336 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
- 03:41 UTC / 17:21 UTC
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:05 UTC / 08:29 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.