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3:40 am - 2:30 pmRUH-CPT
11h 50m1 stop
2:35 pm - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
10h 35m1 stop
2,136 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Wed, Nov 20 - Fri, Nov 29
3:40 am - 2:30 pmRUH-CPT
11h 50m1 stop
1:50 pm - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
11h 20m1 stop
2,151 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Nov 16 - Tue, Nov 26
3:40 am - 2:30 pmRUH-CPT
11h 50m1 stop
1:50 pm - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
11h 20m1 stop
2,368 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Dec 7 - Sat, Dec 28
1:00 pm - 2:25 pmRUH-CPT
26h 25m2 stops
11:45 am - 1:35 amCPT-RUH
36h 50m2 stops
2,665 ﷼
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Sun, Nov 17 - Tue, Nov 26
1:00 pm - 2:25 pmRUH-CPT
26h 25m2 stops
11:45 am - 1:35 amCPT-RUH
36h 50m2 stops
2,710 ﷼
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Sun, Nov 17 - Tue, Nov 26
10:30 pm - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
19h 55m1 stop
6:55 pm - 4:00 pmCPT-RUH
20h 05m1 stop
2,995 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Sun, Dec 8 - Sat, Dec 28
10:30 pm - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
19h 55m1 stop
12:35 pm - 10:25 amCPT-RUH
20h 50m1 stop
3,521 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Sun, Dec 8 - Thu, Dec 19
1:25 pm - 12:00 pmRUH-CPT
23h 35m1 stop
5:15 pm - 12:25 pmCPT-RUH
18h 10m1 stop
4,238 ﷼Turkish Airlines
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Sun, Dec 1 - Wed, Dec 11
9:15 pm - 10:40 amRUH-CPT
38h 25m2 stops
12:35 pm - 8:20 pmCPT-RUH
30h 45m2 stops
4,542 ﷼Oman Air
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Sun, Dec 1 - Sat, Dec 7
6:45 am - 12:00 pmRUH-CPT
30h 15m1 stop
5:15 pm - 12:25 pmCPT-RUH
18h 10m1 stop
5,882 ﷼Turkish Airlines
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Sun, Dec 1 - Sat, Dec 7
3:40 am - 2:30 pmRUH-CPT
11h 50m1 stop
1,329 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Dec 7
7:55 pm - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
22h 30m1 stop
1,385 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Sun, Dec 8
12:05 am - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
18h 20m2 stops
1,835 ﷼
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Sat, Dec 7
11:40 pm - 7:20 pmRUH-CPT
20h 40m3 stops
2,004 ﷼
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Sun, Jan 5
11:15 am - 11:00 amRUH-CPT
24h 45m3 stops
2,147 ﷼
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Fri, Jan 3
3:40 am - 7:20 pmRUH-CPT
40h 40m2 stops
2,230 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Jan 4
11:55 pm - 6:30 amRUH-CPT
31h 35m3 stops
3,303 ﷼KLM
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Sun, Dec 8
5:30 pm - 10:30 amRUH-CPT
18h 00m1 stop
3,517 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Sun, Jan 5
12:05 am - 6:30 amRUH-CPT
55h 25m3 stops
5,018 ﷼KLM
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Thu, Jan 2
2:30 am - 1:35 pmRUH-CPT
36h 05m3 stops
5,067 ﷼Kenya Airways
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Sat, Dec 7
7:10 pm - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
23h 15m1 stop
12:40 pm - 10:25 amCPT-RUH
20h 45m1 stop
2,781 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Sat, Nov 9 - Thu, Nov 14
3:55 pm - 5:25 pmRUH-CPT
26h 30m1 stop
12:40 pm - 10:25 amCPT-RUH
20h 45m1 stop
2,905 ﷼Qatar Airways
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Thu, Nov 7 - Thu, Nov 14
7:55 pm - 11:10 pmRUH-CPT
28h 15m2 stops
7:30 pm - 9:00 pmCPT-RUH
24h 30m2 stops
2,980 ﷼
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Sun, Nov 10 - Sat, Nov 16
3:40 am - 7:20 pmRUH-CPT
40h 40m2 stops
1:50 pm - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
11h 20m1 stop
3,097 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Nov 9 - Thu, Nov 14
3:40 am - 2:30 pmRUH-CPT
11h 50m1 stop
1:50 pm - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
11h 20m1 stop
3,273 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Wed, Nov 6 - Sat, Nov 9
3:40 am - 7:20 pmRUH-CPT
40h 40m2 stops
8:55 am - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
16h 15m2 stops
3,386 ﷼Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Nov 9 - Thu, Nov 14
3:40 am - 10:45 pmRUH-CPT
20h 05m2 stops
5:50 am - 2:10 amCPT-RUH
19h 20m2 stops
3,446 ﷼
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Thu, Nov 7 - Fri, Nov 15
4:25 am - 10:40 amRUH-CPT
31h 15m2 stops
12:35 pm - 3:05 amCPT-RUH
37h 30m2 stops
4,924 ﷼Oman Air
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Fri, Nov 8 - Thu, Nov 14
5:20 pm - 10:40 amRUH-CPT
42h 20m2 stops
6:55 pm - 3:55 pmCPT-RUH
44h 00m2 stops
5,033 ﷼Oman Air
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Fri, Nov 8 - Fri, Nov 15
9:20 pm - 7:55 pmRUH-CPT
23h 35m2 stops
9:20 am - 8:55 amCPT-RUH
22h 35m2 stops
5,765 ﷼Emirates
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Sun, Nov 10 - Thu, Nov 14

Flights from Riyadh to Cape Town - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Riyadh to Cape Town to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Riyadh to Cape Town?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town is October, where tickets cost 2,567 ﷼ on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and December, where the average cost of tickets is 3,543 ﷼ and 3,472 ﷼ respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Riyadh to Cape Town?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from Riyadh to Cape Town, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 155 days before departure.

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May

High season

July

Cheapest flight

1,329 ﷼
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 10% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 24% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Riyadh to Cape Town

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FAQs for booking flights from Riyadh to Cape Town

  • What is the cheapest flight from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Riyadh to Cape Town was 354 ﷼ for a one-way ticket and 569 ﷼ for a round-trip.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    When flying out of Riyadh you will be using Riyadh King Khaled Intl. You will be landing at Cape Town, also known as Cape Town Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam are the airline alliances operating flights between Riyadh and Cape Town, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town, Qatar Airways or Ethiopian Air?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town are Qatar Airways and Ethiopian Air. With an average price for the route of 3,304 ﷼ and an overall rating of 7.5, Qatar Airways is the most popular choice. Ethiopian Air is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of 2,670 ﷼ and an overall rating of 7.3.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Riyadh to Cape Town.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Cape Town from Riyadh is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Cape Town with an airline and back to Riyadh with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Riyadh to Cape Town?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Cape Town from Riyadh up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 3 airlines serving from Riyadh to Cape Town

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Riyadh to Cape Town. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Riyadh to Cape Town? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.1
EmiratesOverall score based on 3534 reviews
8.1Boarding
8.3Crew
8.2Entertainment
8.0Comfort
7.9Food
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The food was amazing on our flight. So many options for movies and shows to stay entertained for 12 hours.

10.0 ExcellentHumility, Oct 2024YYZ - DXB
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The food was amazing on our flight. So many options for movies and shows to stay entertained for 12 hours.

We boarded via a mobile gate in Dubai. I don't care for the bus ride from the gate to the plane

The crew were friendly, dressed professionally and helpful when needed. The food was good to very good. The seats were comfortable and entertainment selections were excellent.   For that long of a flight Athens to Newark Economy is a little tight and the space became uncomfortable about mid-way. Next time I would try and get a Premium Economy seat. Especially for the return flight when one can be less enthused and tired. On the way to a vacation enthusiasm can outweigh discomfort.

The flight experience was good, but connection time was cut shorted because of delayed start.. it would have been helpful if the flight showed which gate/terminal we need to go for connecting flight and flight timing was less than 30 minutes to connect which made ourselves stressful to catch next flight 😔

POOR CREW BEHAVIOR. RESTRICTIONS ON FOOD. FEELS LIKE ECONOMY CLASS.

It was economy plus. That is all. I literally felt like traveling in economy class with a little extra leg room. Poor food. V restricted options. Worst of all POOR CREW ATTITUDE.

Absolutely horrible all around especially for such a long 13-14 hour flight - terrible food - ancient entertainment - legroom worse than a short air Asia flight - not enough toilets

Food was good, great communication by Pilot and Co Pilot, Crew very friendly. Slow beginning drink and meal service - over 2hrs into flight which disrupted overnight flight sleep. Entertainment systems was 3 Stars, my wife's was nonfunctional and had to call attendant 3 times to get it reset, mine the headphones and jack we're twitchy and keep going to muted volume.

Flight was delayed and no information was provided what was new time Change gate 3 times at Madina airport First gate was 113 Second gate was 204 And last gate was 113 again

Inexperienced e crew, no personal greeting for gold member, not the same emirates service that I know. I take this flight almost weekly

riding in first class, you don't expect every time you order your dinner or breakfast that the first thing the stewardess says is Let me see if we have any left. Also, the food selection was not great: 3 of 4 entrees had mushrooms and I dont eat mushrooms, the 4th item was 'let me see if we have any left' and this was within 30 mins of entering the flight! Same experience level, it didn't feel first class this round.

Good staff, good intent, decent entertainment. More seat space would always be of benefit

For a short flight, Qatar Airways offers very good onboard service.

It was a really long flight from Doha to Philadelphia and it was overall a good one. The one area that I would comment on is that there is a lot of single-use plastic and disposables in the meal service for American Airlines. It would be great to see more circular options in the meal service to reduce the amount of waste.

Not impressed. Only allowed one carry on on such a long flight.

All over with Qatar airlines my experience was really bad due to delays and then putting me on different airlines and after 8 hours of wait I had to listen to their is no plane to fly for another 24 hours. Wore experience ever.

Overall good but staff in the place looked extremely tired after 8hrs in 14 hrs journey and then service was cut short and response time for calls increased in later part of flight. Food was ok not astonishing

It was the terrific, I was promoted to businessman class, and the service was amazing.

The flight from Doha to Mumbai with Indigo was worst in my whole life, I had booked tickets with Qatar, but still we had to fly by Indigo , worst flight

Better service is needed. I booked for Qatar but I was switched to American way after I bought my tickets.

Plane was late with no information or announcement … had to walk up n downstairs.., had not communicated this … and ppl had suitcase to carry .

Like: Plane made it to the destination. Dislike: Food is terrible, no entertainment, very dirty airplane.

There where no ear phones provided and the food needs to improve.

I have been flew with ET since 2013 and I wish the service can be reach standard airlines as Star Alliance member please ET you need to improve many thing on the services learn from SQ and other member

Flight was delayed resulting in a series of unfortunate events. I ran the airport as people were yelling my flight anyone who can’t run wouldn’t have made it! Then the luggage is missing. Good company, execution needs fine tuning.

I had a full row so can't imagine how this could be better

The boarding area was too small with only one agent checking passengers into their standing bus

My experience was with Ethiopian airlines was pathetic. I would not recommend anyone to travel with Ethiopian air. Customer Service was very poor, rude stuff and flight attendants. Unwilling to offer help when asked either not able to articulate English properly or adamantly rude. Bole airport is dirty and unpleasant. Many passengers going through the airport but inadequate staff to offer service. Passengers in the flight very unkempt. Noisy flight. flight attendants unable to make order during flight. Passengers with kids unable to control their kids. The kids kept screaming, and shouting during the flight making everyone uncomfortable. Overall the flight was not comfortable.

1. They messed up my baby food order. 2. They messed up my confirmed seats. 3. The screen on my seat was not working at all. So, it’s a horrible experience

The experience was amazing! Many thanks to the pilot who informed us that we were passing mt Kilimanjaro and we had the chance to see it !

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Riyadh to Cape Town found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
12/7Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
1,329 ﷼
12/8Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
22h 30mRUH-CPT
1,385 ﷼
12/7Sat
2 stops
18h 20mRUH-CPT
1,835 ﷼
1/5Sun
3 stops
20h 40mRUH-CPT
2,004 ﷼
1/3Fri
3 stops
24h 45mRUH-CPT
2,147 ﷼
1/4Sat
2 stopsEthiopian Air
40h 40mRUH-CPT
2,230 ﷼
12/8Sun
3 stopsKLM
31h 35mRUH-CPT
3,303 ﷼
1/5Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
18h 00mRUH-CPT
3,517 ﷼
1/2Thu
3 stopsKLM
55h 25mRUH-CPT
5,018 ﷼
12/7Sat
3 stopsKenya Airways
36h 05mRUH-CPT
5,067 ﷼

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Last minute flights from Riyadh to Cape Town

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Riyadh to Cape Town that are departing in the next 10 days.
11/9Sat
multi-stopQatar Airways
23h 15mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopQatar Airways
20h 45mCPT-RUH
2,781 ﷼
11/7Thu
multi-stopQatar Airways
26h 30mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopQatar Airways
20h 45mCPT-RUH
2,905 ﷼
11/10Sun
multi-stop
28h 15mRUH-CPT
11/16Sat
multi-stop
24h 30mCPT-RUH
2,980 ﷼
11/9Sat
multi-stopEthiopian Air
40h 40mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopEthiopian Air
11h 20mCPT-RUH
3,097 ﷼
11/6Wed
multi-stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
11/9Sat
multi-stopEthiopian Air
11h 20mCPT-RUH
3,273 ﷼
11/9Sat
multi-stopEthiopian Air
40h 40mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopEthiopian Air
16h 15mCPT-RUH
3,386 ﷼
11/7Thu
multi-stop
20h 05mRUH-CPT
11/15Fri
multi-stop
19h 20mCPT-RUH
3,446 ﷼
11/8Fri
multi-stopOman Air
31h 15mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopOman Air
37h 30mCPT-RUH
4,924 ﷼
11/8Fri
multi-stopOman Air
42h 20mRUH-CPT
11/15Fri
multi-stopOman Air
44h 00mCPT-RUH
5,033 ﷼
11/10Sun
multi-stopEmirates
23h 35mRUH-CPT
11/14Thu
multi-stopEmirates
22h 35mCPT-RUH
5,765 ﷼

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