Route brief · MEX → JNB
Mexico City → Johannesburg
$1,237
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Feb 18 '27 – Mar 10 '27 · 20 nights
British 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 23 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under British Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,237 for 14,584 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 7th — 1.8× the $671 we hold from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Mexico City, where the middle fare is $1,316. We have 1 month 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
- Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ~23 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,584 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- British Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
MEX → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book MEX → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Mexico City to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under British 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 24). 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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