Route brief · HOU → JNB
Houston → Johannesburg
$671
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 22 – Dec 8 · 16 nights
Kenya Airways2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefJNBJohannesburgAfrica’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)All routes into JohannesburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. 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 21.5 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Kenya Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $671 for 14,501 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this is the cheapest right now — 18% under the next one, Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $1,061. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ~21.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,501 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Kenya Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
HOU → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Kenya Airways. 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 August 9). 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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