Route brief · LON → JNB
London → Johannesburg
$702
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $880 · difference $178
Nov 24 – Dec 12 · 18 nights
Air Algerie1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $745–$880
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for LON → JNB. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $702 and peak in August near $1,044 — a $342 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Air Algerie, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $702 for 9,070 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 29 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 9th — 21% above the $578 from São Paulo. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of London is $661.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $751 then versus $771 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 $701, on Sep 7.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 21 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $702
20% below the $880 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Johannesburg · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,070 km each way
- Typical price
- $880 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Algerie
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
LON → JNB, answered.
Is $702 a good price for London to Johannesburg?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $880 round-trip. At $702 you're 20% below that, saving about $178, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Johannesburg?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Johannesburg are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Algerie. 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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