Rare1 stop · 12h
SYD to HANVietnam
Hanoi
$484
usually $885
−45%
Most monthly lows $487–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · SYD → JNB
Sydney to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$1,227
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 28 Feb
- Return
- Mon 8 Mar
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 20h
- Airline
Air Seychelles
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 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Air Seychelles, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,227 for 11,040 km each way, that works out to about $56 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 24th — 2.1× the $576 we hold from Vienna. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $1,227. 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 7 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 33% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,498 then versus $1,997 now, across 9 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 $1,227, on 28 Feb '27.
- Tue 15 Dec$2,003
- Wed 16 Dec$1,878lowest
- Thu 17 Dec$1,967
- Fri 18 Dec$2,111
- Sat 19 Dec$2,106
- Sun 20 Dec$1,969
- Mon 21 Dec$1,997
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 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,040 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Seychelles
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
SYD → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → 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 Sydney to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Seychelles. 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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