Route brief · DUB → CPT
Dublin → Cape Town
$763
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Feb 1 '27 – Feb 4 '27 · 3 nights
KLM2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCPTCape TownTable Mountain, two oceans and winelands 40 minutes out — the long-haul that overdelivers.Best windowNov–MarAirportsCape Town (CPT)All routes into Cape TownWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Cape Town: Nov–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $763 for 9,993 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cape Town, this fare ranks 14th — 21% above the $628 from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin, where the middle fare is $836. We have 3 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $780 then versus $971 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $711, on Nov 12.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Cape Town (CPT)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,993 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
DUB → CPT, answered.
How far in advance should I book DUB → Cape Town?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Dublin to Cape Town?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). 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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