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Lisbon to Cape Town

Best fare, round trip

$664

Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.

Found
Depart
Fri 1 Jan
Return
Fri 8 Jan
Stay
7 nights
Flight
1 stop · 10.5h
Airline
South African Airways
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South AfricaCape TownTable Mountain, two oceans and winelands 40 minutes out — the long-haul that overdelivers.Best windowNov–MarAirportsCape Town (CPT)Every route into Cape Town

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Trip options: Round-trip · Economy · 1 adult
Travellers: 1 adult

Fare seasonality

When this route gets cheap.

The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under South African Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $664 for 8,563 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cape Town, this fare ranks 5th — 8% above the $612 from Brussels. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Cape Town: Nov–Mar.

Day-level prices for the next 4 months

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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $932 then versus $884 now, across 17 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 $651, on 4 Nov.

Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 17 of 109 days priced, from 61 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.

Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026

We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.

Route facts

Airports
Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Cape Town (CPT)
Flight time
≈10.5 hours outbound
Distance
≈8,563 km each way
Airlines on the board
South African Airways
Itineraries
Connections on current fares
Best months to visit
Nov–Mar

Good to know

LIS → CPT, answered.

How far in advance should I book LIS → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.

Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Cape Town?

The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under South African Airways. 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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