Distance between Buenos Aires and Cape Town (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Cape Town (South Africa) is 6,869 km (4,268 miles), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
6,869 km
4,268 miles · straight line
Heading from Buenos Aires
114° (east-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Cape Town
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~8 h 35 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
Buenos AiresCape TownThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Buenos Aires to Cape Town at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 6,869 km (4,268 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Buenos Aires
- 114° (east-southeast) to Cape Town
- Heading from Cape Town
- 245° (west-southwest) to Buenos Aires
- Midpoint
- 41.0049° S, 19.7914° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 8 h 35 min in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 34.6131° S, 58.3772° W (city centre)
- Cape Town, South Africa
- 33.9258° S, 18.4232° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires to São Paulo1,675 km
- Buenos Aires to Miami7,097 km
- Buenos Aires to Mexico City7,393 km
- Buenos Aires to Johannesburg8,087 km
- Buenos Aires to New York8,527 km
- Buenos Aires to Toronto8,965 km
Other distances from Cape Town
- Cape Town to Gqeberha663 km
- Cape Town to Bloemfontein911 km
- Cape Town to Johannesburg1,262 km
- Cape Town to Durban1,272 km
- Cape Town to Pretoria1,308 km
- Cape Town to São Paulo6,345 km
Questions
Is 6,869 km (4,268 miles) the driving distance from Buenos Aires to Cape Town?
No. 6,869 km (4,268 miles) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Buenos Aires and Cape Town measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Buenos Aires's centre (34.6131° S, 58.3772° W) to Cape Town's (33.9258° S, 18.4232° E). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.