Distance between Cape Town and Dubai (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Cape Town (South Africa) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) is 7,630 km (4,741 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
7,630 km
4,741 miles · straight line
Heading from Cape Town
36° (northeast)
initial compass bearing to Dubai
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~9 h 30 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
Cape TownDubaiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Cape Town to Dubai at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 7,630 km (4,741 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Cape Town
- 36° (northeast) to Dubai
- Heading from Dubai
- 212° (south-southwest) to Cape Town
- Midpoint
- 4.6623° S, 37.7027° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 9 h 30 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.
- Cape Town, South Africa
- 33.9258° S, 18.4232° E (city centre)
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 25.0772° N, 55.3093° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
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
Other distances from Dubai
- Dubai to Mumbai1,928 km
- Dubai to Delhi2,207 km
- Dubai to Cairo2,430 km
- Dubai to Istanbul3,009 km
- Dubai to Rome4,331 km
- Dubai to Berlin4,638 km
Questions
Is 7,630 km (4,741 miles) the driving distance from Cape Town to Dubai?
No. 7,630 km (4,741 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 Cape Town and Dubai measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Cape Town's centre (33.9258° S, 18.4232° E) to Dubai's (25.0772° N, 55.3093° 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.