Airports in South Africa
19 airports with IATA codes · 150 routes total
This directory lists every IATA-coded airport in South Africa recorded in the OpenFlights dataset, with city, exact latitude/longitude, the count of unique destinations served, and one-click flight-distance tools to anywhere in the world. The range spans from major international hubs serving hundreds of distinct destinations down to small regional and local airports serving a handful of short-haul links — 19 South Africa airports in total.
The three most-connected airports in South Africa by scheduled-route count are OR Tambo International Airport (JNB), Cape Town International Airport (CPT), and King Shaka International Airport (DUR), together accounting for 116 of the 150 unique source-airport → destination pairs from South Africa in the dataset. On the map above, pins 1 – 5 mark the top hubs; small dots are every other listed airport. Click any pin or card for full details — IATA + ICAO codes, elevation, timezone, airlines operating there, popular routes, and nearby alternative airports.
Major airports in South Africa
Ranked by the number of unique scheduled destinations served (route count from OpenFlights). The numbers below match the # pins on the map.
Complete list of airports in South Africa
All 19 IATA-coded South Africa airports, sorted alphabetically by city.
About flying via South Africa
Distances between any two airports — within South Africa or to anywhere else in the world — are computed on this site with the Vincenty geodesic formula, which models Earth's oblate-spheroid shape (WGS-84) and converges to within roughly 0.5 mm. Flight times are estimated against typical aircraft cruise speeds for each distance band (short, medium, long, and ultra-long-haul); they are first-order approximations, not Air Traffic Control flight-plan times, and exclude taxi, holding, and routing detours. CO₂ emissions use the UK DEFRA 2024 conversion factors for business travel by air, broken down by economy, premium economy, business, and first class, including the radiative-forcing uplift.
Click any airport in the directory above to open its detail page — exact coordinates, elevation, time zone, operating airlines, scheduled destinations, and nearby alternative airports, plus an embedded distance calculator. Note that this dataset is a snapshot: schedules change frequently, so always confirm current operations with the airline or the airport's own website before booking or planning.
Data sources
- Airports & routes: OpenFlights — community-maintained dataset of airports and scheduled routes (ODbL licensed).
- IATA / ICAO codes: official IATA and ICAO public airport-code registries.
- Distance:Vincenty's formulae (1975) on the WGS-84 reference ellipsoid.
- CO₂ factors: UK DEFRA 2024 GHG conversion factors for business travel by air, including radiative forcing.
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO.
Frequently asked questions about airports in South Africa
How many airports are in South Africa?
What is the largest airport in South Africa?
What are the main IATA codes for airports in South Africa?
Can I calculate the distance between any two South Africa airports?
How accurate are the South Africa airport coordinates and distances?
airports.dat dataset, a community-contributed reference cross-checked against official AIPs and ICAO codes. Distances between any two airports are computed in-app with the Vincenty geodesic formula on the WGS-84 reference ellipsoid, converging to within roughly 0.5 mm — well below any practical flight-planning tolerance. For independent verification of coordinates, see ourairports.org or the airport's official Aeronautical Information Publication.