Distance from Cape Town to Tokyo
The great-circle distance between Cape Town, South Africa and Tokyo, Japan is 14,732 km (9,154 mi · 7,954 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 14,732 km · 9,154 mi · 7,954 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Tokyo
- 70° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Cape Town
- 254° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 59 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 485 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
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:30 UTC / 08:39 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.