CPT
Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport (IATA: CPT, ICAO: FACT) is a large airport in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. It opened in 1954. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,201 m (10,502 ft). It is operated by Airports Company South Africa. In 2017 it handled 10.7 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1954–20071954
OpenedCape Town International Airport opens.
07 NOV 2007
DisasterNationwide Airlines Flight 723.No deaths
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap01/19346° / 166° · LIT
LENGTH3,201 m10,502 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt
16/34136° / 316° · LIT
LENGTH1,701 m5,581 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2011–20178.5M
8.5M
10.1M
10.7M
11121617
Routes
46 destinations · 24 countriesYear-round41
GRJGeorge AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Airlink348 km216 miPBZPlettenberg Bay AirportSouth Africa · CemAir436 km271 miPLZChief Dawid Stuurman International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Airlink647 km402 miUTNUpington AirportSouth Africa · Airlink669 km416 miKIMKimberley AirportSouth Africa · CemAir, Airlink820 km510 miELSKing Phalo AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, CemAir861 km535 miBFNBram Fischer International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Airlink909 km565 miGBESir Seretse Khama International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana, Airlink1,264 km785 miHLALanseria International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair1,266 km787 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · LIFT (airline), FlySafair, CemAir +11,272 km790 miDURKing Shaka International AirportSouth Africa · LIFT (airline), FlySafair, CemAir1,277 km793 miWVBWalvis Bay International AirportNamibia · Westair Aviation, Airlink1,282 km797 miWDHHosea Kutako International AirportNamibia · FlySafair, Westair Aviation, Airlink1,283 km797 miSHOKing Mswati III International AirportEswatini · Eswatini Air1,516 km942 miMQPKruger Mpumalanga International AirportSouth Africa · FlySafair, Airlink1,538 km956 miSZKSkukuza AirportSouth Africa · Airlink1,605 km997 miHDSEastgate Airport / Air Force Base HoedspruitSouth Africa · FlySafair, CemAir, Airlink1,611 km1,001 miMPMMaputo AirportMozambique · Airlink1,614 km1,003 miMUBMaun International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana, Airlink1,628 km1,012 miVFAVictoria Falls International AirportZimbabwe · Airlink, Kenya Airways1,906 km1,184 miBBKKasane International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana1,910 km1,187 miLVIHarry Mwanga Nkumbula International AirportZambia · Proflight Zambia, Kenya Airways1,934 km1,202 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Airlink2,173 km1,350 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Proflight Zambia2,296 km1,427 miNBJDr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International AirportAngola · TAAG Angola Airlines2,820 km1,752 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania3,683 km2,289 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Airlink3,745 km2,327 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways4,101 km2,548 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Air Mauritius, Airlink4,117 km2,558 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines5,230 km3,250 miGRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil6,351 km3,946 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways7,453 km4,631 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates7,644 km4,750 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines8,431 km5,239 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa9,393 km5,837 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines9,667 km6,007 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways9,682 km6,016 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM9,688 km6,020 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines12,593 km7,825 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines12,764 km7,931 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines13,091 km8,134 miSeasonal8
GRJGeorge AirportSouth Africa · CemAir348 km216 miHLESaint Helena International AirportSt. Helena · Airlink3,145 km1,954 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Edelweiss Air9,110 km5,661 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Lufthansa9,179 km5,704 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France9,363 km5,818 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Condor Flugdienst9,393 km5,837 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Norse Atlantic Airways9,642 km5,991 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Virgin Atlantic9,682 km6,016 miMost destinationsAirlink 19FlySafair 10CemAir 7Air Botswana 3Kenya Airways 3BidAir Cargo 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CPT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Cape Town International Airport” (revision of 21 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
8 channelsAPPApproach119.700
APPDirector124.500
ATISATIS127.000
GNDGround121.900
ACApron Control122.650
TWRTower118.100
ATISLong Range ATIS127.600
DELDelivery122.100