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Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro

1 operator run this water, from 432 h 00. Rio de Janeiro has an airport 1 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.

Silversea Cruises Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro 6059 km crossing 432 h 00 rate not held 14 km/h average

Other ways to reach Rio de Janeiro

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

Santos – Rio de Janeiro 24 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Salvador de Bahia – Rio de Janeiro 48 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Itajai – Rio de Janeiro 72 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises
Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro 96 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Costa Cruises
Bridgetown – Rio de Janeiro 288 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Rio de Janeiro 312 h 00 Ponant Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Tarragona – Rio de Janeiro 312 h 00 MSC Cruises
Lisbon (Oriente) – Rio de Janeiro 336 h 00 Costa Cruises
San Juan – Rio de Janeiro 336 h 00 Crystal Cruises
Barcelona – Rio de Janeiro 360 h 00 Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises

And other ways to reach Cape Town

Durban – Cape Town 96 h 00 MSC Cruises
Victoria Falls – Cape Town 216 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope
Johannesburg – Cape Town 240 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
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–Rio de Janeiro 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.