Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → JNB
Washington to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$945
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 30 Nov
- Return
- Wed 6 Jan
- Stay
- 37 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 18.5h
- Airline
Ethiopian
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 18.5 hours outbound, on a 37-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $945 for 13,045 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 2nd — 51% above the $626 from Houston. For context, the middle fare among the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $887. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
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Cached fares · checked 03 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,045 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
WAS → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Washington to Johannesburg?
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 4 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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