Route · AE

Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg

1 operator run this water, from 8 h 22.

Getting from Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg

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Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Alitalia, Etihad Airways AUH → JNB 6299 km non-stop 332 in the air 9 h 52 est. rate not held 752 km/h average

Other ways to reach Johannesburg

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Johannesburg without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Polokwane – Johannesburg 51 min South African Airways

Gaborone – Johannesburg 52 min Air Botswana

Mbombela – Johannesburg 52 min South African Airways

Hoedspruit – Johannesburg 56 min South African Airways

Maseru(Mazenod) – Johannesburg 58 min South African Airways

Bloemfontein – Johannesburg 59 min South African Airways

Maputo – Johannesburg 1 h 02 Air Mozambique

Pietermaritzburg – Johannesburg 1 h 03 South African Airways

Kimberley – Johannesburg 1 h 04 South African Airways

Durban – Johannesburg 1 h 06 British Airways, Comair

And other ways to reach Abu Dhabi

Doha – Abu Dhabi 54 min Etihad Airways

Muscat/Seeb – Abu Dhabi 59 min Air India Express

Manama – Abu Dhabi 1 h 04 Air Berlin

Ad Dammam – Abu Dhabi 1 h 10 Etihad Airways

Riyadh – Abu Dhabi 1 h 30 Etihad Airways

Kuwait City – Abu Dhabi 1 h 34 Alitalia

Karachi – Abu Dhabi 2 h 05 Alitalia

Medina – Abu Dhabi 2 h 23 Etihad Airways

Jeddah – Abu Dhabi 2 h 31 Etihad Airways

Ahmedabad – Abu Dhabi 2 h 48 Etihad Airways

Where else these quays go

Also from Abu Dhabi

Ad Dammam · Ahmedabad · Almaty · Amman · Amsterdam · Attock · Bangkok · Beijing · Beirut · Belgrade · Bengaluru · Cairo · Calicut · Casablanca

Also from Johannesburg

Accra · Addis Ababa · Amsterdam · Antananarivo · Atlanta · Beira · Blantyre · Bloemfontein · Brazzaville · Bulawayo · Cairo · Cape Town · Dar es Salaam · Doha

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Abu Dhabi–Johannesburg crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.