RareNonstop · 5h
CHI to SJUPuerto Rico
San Juan
$162
usually $340
−52%
Most monthly lows $287–$340. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · CHI → JNB
Chicago to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$1,085
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 15 Mar
- Return
- Tue 30 Mar
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 20.5h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
South AfricaJohannesburgAfrica’s busiest airport and the road to Kruger — most people connect, some stay for the best museums on the continent.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsO. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)Every route into JohannesburgFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,085 for 13,983 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 8th — 1.7× the $626 we hold from Houston. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $977. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,983 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
CHI → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Johannesburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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