Great1 stop · 14h
SEL to ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
$390
usually $640
−39%
Most monthly lows $515–$679. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · SEL → CPT
Seoul to Cape Town
Best fare, round trip
$905
−19%
below its usual $1,120
you keep $215
Found
- Depart
- Mon 30 Nov
- Return
- Thu 10 Dec
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 20h
- Airline
Ethiopian
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $1,026 and $1,121. The drop beats 52% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
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 TownFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $905 and peak in January near $1,124, 24% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $905 for 13,714 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cape Town, this fare ranks 4th — 1.8× the $516 we hold from Toronto. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 14 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul. 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 2% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,005 then versus $1,030 now, across 14 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 $905, on 30 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 107 days priced, from 27 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $981. Compare fares from this day.2345678Monday 9 November: $989. Compare fares from this day.10111213141516Tuesday 17 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.1819202122Monday 23 November: $943. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 24 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 25 November: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.26272829Monday 30 November: $905. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
1234567891011121314Tuesday 15 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.161718192021Tuesday 22 December: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.232425262728293031
January 2027
1234Tuesday 5 January: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $905
19% below the $1,120 typical fare
$1026Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$905Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$1121Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$1124Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Seoul to Cape Town, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Cape Town (CPT)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,714 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,120 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
SEL → CPT, answered.
Is $905 a good price for Seoul to Cape Town?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,120 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Cape Town?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 SEL → 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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Cape Town?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. 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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