Distance between Johannesburg and Pretoria (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Johannesburg and Pretoria, both in South Africa, is 53 km (33 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
53 km
33 miles · straight line
Heading from Johannesburg
16° (north-northeast)
initial compass bearing to Pretoria
Midpoint
25.9736° S, 28.1159° E
halfway along the straight line
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
JohannesburgPretoriaThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Johannesburg to Pretoria at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 53 km (33 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Johannesburg
- 16° (north-northeast) to Pretoria
- Heading from Pretoria
- 196° (south-southwest) to Johannesburg
- Midpoint
- 25.9736° S, 28.1159° E, halfway along the straight line
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- 26.2023° S, 28.0436° E (city centre)
- Pretoria, South Africa
- 25.7449° S, 28.1878° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Johannesburg
- Johannesburg to Bloemfontein371 km
- Johannesburg to Durban501 km
- Johannesburg to Gqeberha894 km
- Johannesburg to Cape Town1,262 km
- Johannesburg to Cairo6,266 km
- Johannesburg to Dubai6,409 km
Other distances from Pretoria
- Pretoria to Bloemfontein423 km
- Pretoria to Durban536 km
- Pretoria to Gqeberha947 km
- Pretoria to Cape Town1,308 km
Questions
Is 53 km (33 miles) the driving distance from Johannesburg to Pretoria?
No. 53 km (33 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 Johannesburg and Pretoria measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Johannesburg's centre (26.2023° S, 28.0436° 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.