Distance between Durban and Pretoria (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Durban and Pretoria, both in South Africa, is 536 km (333 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
536 km
333 miles · straight line
Heading from Durban
328° (north-northwest)
initial compass bearing to Pretoria
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~40 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
DurbanPretoriaThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Durban to Pretoria at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 536 km (333 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Durban
- 328° (north-northwest) to Pretoria
- Heading from Pretoria
- 149° (south-southeast) to Durban
- Midpoint
- 27.8086° S, 29.5816° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 40 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.
- Durban, South Africa
- 29.8579° S, 31.0292° E (city centre)
- Pretoria, South Africa
- 25.7449° S, 28.1878° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Durban
- Durban to Bloemfontein473 km
- Durban to Johannesburg501 km
- Durban to Gqeberha685 km
- Durban to Cape Town1,272 km
Other distances from Pretoria
- Pretoria to Johannesburg53 km
- Pretoria to Bloemfontein423 km
- Pretoria to Gqeberha947 km
- Pretoria to Cape Town1,308 km
Questions
Is 536 km (333 miles) the driving distance from Durban to Pretoria?
No. 536 km (333 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 Durban and Pretoria measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Durban's centre (29.8579° S, 31.0292° E) to Pretoria's (25.7449° S, 28.1878° 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.