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Cape Town to Johannesburg

4 operators run this water, from 240 h 00. Johannesburg has an airport 21 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

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.

AmaWaterways Cape Town → Johannesburg 1262 km crossing 240 h 00 rate not held 5 km/h average
CroisiEurope Cape Town → Johannesburg 1262 km crossing not held rate not held
Comair, Mango CPT → HLA 1265 km non-stop 738 in the air 3 h 35 est. rate not held 608 km/h average
Asiana Airlines, British Airways CPT → JNB 1271 km non-stop 319 320 330 in the air 3 h 35 est. rate not held 608 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.

land tour – Johannesburg 96 h 00 AmaWaterways
Windhoek – Johannesburg 144 h 00 AmaWaterways
Victoria Falls – Johannesburg 216 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope

And other ways to reach Cape Town

Durban – Cape Town 96 h 00 MSC Cruises
Victoria Falls – Cape Town 216 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope
Port Louis – Cape Town 240 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Azamara Cruises
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Cape Town 312 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Mahe Island Seychelles – Cape Town 360 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Sal Island – Cape Town 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Palma de Mallorca – Cape Town 432 h 00 AIDA Cruises, TUI Cruises
Rio de Janeiro – Cape Town 432 h 00 Silversea Cruises
Southampton – Cape Town 432 h 00 Cunard, PO Cruises
Dakar – Cape Town 456 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises, Silversea Cruises

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Cape Town–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.