Distance from Cape Town to Toronto
The great-circle distance between Cape Town, South Africa and Toronto, Canada is 13,105 km (8,143 mi · 7,076 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,105 km · 8,143 mi · 7,076 nmi
- Initial bearing Cape Town → Toronto
- 306° (NW)
- Initial bearing Toronto → Cape Town
- 112° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 16 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Cape Town UTC+02:00 · Toronto UTC-05:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 503 min — the sun rises earlier 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
- Toronto
- 43.7064, -79.3986
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:03 UTC / 22:01 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.