ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
ROM to OTPRomania
Bucharest
$59
usually $165
−64%
Most monthly lows $79–$165. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ROM → JNB
Rome to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$611
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 9 Dec
- Return
- Wed 23 Dec
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12h
- Airline
Helvetic Airways
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
South AfricaJohannesburgAfrica’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)Every route into JohannesburgFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Helvetic Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $611 for 7,739 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 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 7th — 34% above the $455 from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $729. We have 2 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 Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $605 then versus $655 now, across 10 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 $582, on 27 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 06 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,739 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Helvetic Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
ROM → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book ROM → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Helvetic 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 8 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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