Route brief · PAR → CPT
Paris → Cape Town
$760
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $1,085 · difference $325
Sep 20 – Oct 5 · 15 nights
AL3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $865–$1,107
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for PAR → CPT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $760 and peak in October near $1,236 — a $476 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under AL, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $760 for 9,342 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cape Town, this fare ranks 13th — 21% above the $628 from London. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris is $713.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $852 then versus $881 now, across 6 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 $689, on Sep 6.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $760
30% below the $1,085 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Cape Town · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Cape Town (CPT)
- Flight time
- ~19.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,342 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,085 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AL
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
PAR → CPT, answered.
Is $760 a good price for Paris to Cape Town?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,085 round-trip. At $760 you're 30% below that, saving about $325, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Paris to Cape Town?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Cape Town are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book PAR → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 7 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Cape Town?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AL. 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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