Cape Town International Airport

Cape Town International Airport (CPT/FACT) is in Cape Town, ZA, 46 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 3,201 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
CPT · FACT
City
Cape Town
Country
ZA
Coordinates
-33.9740, 18.6043
Elevation
46 m · 151 ft
Time zone
Africa/Johannesburg
Local time now
15:17
Airspace
Cape Town (Bandbox) - Cape Town
Departures observed
159 · 82 arrivals
Most seen destinations
JNB, DXB, GRU, HLA, NBO

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
02:57FSK902R44 · ZS-RXP—
04:59LNK9007E295 · ZS-BJWCPT
05:56SFR516B738 · ZS-SJTCPT
05:59SFR100B738 · ZS-SJRJNB
06:07SAA302A320 · ZS-SZLJNB
06:13LNK926QE190 · ZS-YAMJNB
06:16SFR160B738 · ZS-ZWXJNB
06:27ZSEZYF2TH · ZS-EZY—
06:31SFR339B738 · ZS-SJSCPT
06:33SFR520B738 · ZS-SJVCPT
06:36SFR701B738 · ZS-FGHJNB
06:42GBB110KA320 · ZS-GARJNB
06:46SFR840B738 · ZS-FGNCPT
06:52KEM831CRJ2 · ZS-CMGJNB
07:05LNK621ME295 · ZS-ARFCPT
07:07LNK320DE135 · ZS-OTMCPT
07:09SFR293PC12 · ZS-IPPJNB
07:12LNK920KE190 · ZS-YAXJNB
07:17GBB372KB733 · ZS-THYCPT
07:33SFR310B738 · ZS-FGKCPT
07:56KEM900CRJ1 · ZS-CMKCPT
07:59LNK661VE190 · ZS-YARJNB
08:05ZSFHGB734 · ZS-JRK—
08:55SFR201B738 · ZS-ZWMJNB
08:57LNK655AE190 · ZS-YAHJNB
09:11SAA316A320 · ZS-SZKJNB
09:15LNK922ME190 · ZS-YACJNB
09:20SFR313B738 · ZS-SJICPT
09:23SAA194A320 · ZS-SZJ—
09:26ZSAAKJ328 · ZS-AAK—
09:31KEM991CRJ2 · ZS-CMZ—
09:36SFR605B738 · ZS-SJHJNB
09:38ZSYTBPC24 · ZS-YTB—
09:50LNK390NE190 · ZS-YAO—
10:01ZSENTE55P · ZS-ENT—
10:07LNK950YE190 · ZS-YAYJNB
10:18SFR302B738 · ZS-SJUHLA
10:26SFR299B738 · ZS-SJKJNB
10:31LNK657TE295 · ZS-BJWCPT
10:33LNK651RE190 · ZS-YZAJNB

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
03:58FSK903C150 · ZS-EZRJNB
05:50LNK9007E295 · ZS-BJWCPT
07:52SFR312B738 · ZS-SJIHLA
07:56SFR200B738 · ZS-ZWMJNB
08:02SAA303A320 · ZS-SZKJNB
08:27ZSAAKJ328 · ZS-AAKJNB
08:30SFR604B738 · ZS-SJHJNB
08:41ZSMIGH25B · ZS-MIGHLA
08:49SFR301B738 · ZS-SJUHLA
08:59DLH576B789 · D-ABPP—
09:05LNK329EE190 · ZS-YAV—
09:11SFR462B738 · ZS-SJG—
09:16LNK621ME295 · ZS-ARFCPT
09:21SFR298B738 · ZS-SJKJNB
09:23SFR516B738 · ZS-SJTCPT
09:27LNK921LE190 · ZS-YZAJNB
09:52FA692B738 · ZS-FGCJNB
10:03SFR520B738 · ZS-SJVCPT
10:07QTR50KA359 · A7-ALR—
10:12SAA313A320 · ZS-SZMJNB
10:15SFR840B738 · ZS-FGNCPT
10:27BAW59A35K · G-XWBE—
11:00SFR339B738 · ZS-SJSCPT
11:04UAE772B77W · A6-EGVDXB
11:08SFR276B738 · ZS-ZWSJNB
11:12SFR702B738 · ZS-FGHJNB
11:16SAA319A320 · ZS-SZLJNB
11:32LNK320DE135 · ZS-OTMCPT
11:35SFR292PC12 · ZS-IPPJNB
11:39GBB101JA320 · ZS-GARJNB
11:51SFR310B738 · ZS-FGKCPT
11:57SFR590B738 · ZS-FGJJNB
12:03GBB372KB733 · ZS-THYCPT
12:08GBB131JB733 · ZS-VDBJNB
12:20SFR294B738 · ZS-FGZJNB
12:23KEM900CRJ1 · ZS-CMKCPT
12:28LNK383ME190 · ZS-YAL—
12:40LNK927R—JNB
13:28SIA478A359 · 9V-SMNJNB
13:30ETH847B789 · ET-AXS—

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
01/193,201 m · 10,502 ftasphalt346° · 166°
16/341,701 m · 5,581 ftasphalt136° · 316°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

And this on board

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