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CPT · FACT Western Cape, South Africa Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over Cape Town International Airport (CPT)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 882 departures and 879 arrivals at Cape Town International Airport, 252 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Johannesburg (JNB), Johannesburg (HLA) and Dubai (DXB). The airline seen most often is Safair.

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Airport data

IATA code
CPT
ICAO code
FACT
City
Cape Town
Region
Western Cape
Country
South Africa
Elevation
46 m (151 ft)
Coordinates
-33.97403, 18.60433

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Cape Town International Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Cape Town.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
252
departures + arrivals
Departures
882
total, 7 days
Arrivals
879
total, 7 days
Connections
17
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 143 140 283
Mon 2 129 137 266
Tue 3 128 127 255
Wed 4 122 122 244
Thu 5 122 119 241
Fri 6 139 130 269
Sat 7 99 104 203

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Johannesburg JNB 399 flights
  2. Johannesburg HLA 73 flights
  3. Dubai DXB United Arab Emirates 24 flights
  4. Nairobi NBO Kenya 9 flights
  5. Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 8 flights
  6. Munich MUC Germany 6 flights
  7. São Paulo GRU Brazil 5 flights
  8. Atlanta ATL United States 4 flights
  9. Newark EWR United States 4 flights
  10. Paris CDG France 4 flights
  11. Doha DOH Qatar 4 flights
  12. Dulles IAD United States 3 flights
  13. Zurich ZRH Switzerland 3 flights
  14. London LGW United Kingdom 2 flights
  15. Luanda NBJ Angola 1 flights
  16. Istanbul IST Türkiye 1 flights
1 more connections

Airlines

  1. SafairSFR 533
  2. AirlinkLNK 348
  3. South African AirwaysSAA 146
  4. LIFT AirlineGBB 81
  5. EmiratesUAE 42
  6. CemAirKEM 37
  7. LufthansaDLH 28
  8. Ethiopian AirlinesETH 26
  9. TAAG Angola AirlinesDTA 22
  10. British AirwaysBAW 21

Aircraft

  1. Boeing 737-800 B738 454
  2. Embraer E190 E190 187
  3. Airbus A320 A320 172
  4. Airbus A350-900 A359 109
  5. E295 90
  6. Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 71
  7. E135 46
  8. Boeing 737-700 B737 45
  9. P28B 45
  10. CRJ2 39

How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of Cape Town International Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:

curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/-33.97403/lon/18.60433/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Cape Town right now?”

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Cape Town International Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Cape Town: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of CPT, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from Cape Town International Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Safair, Airlink, South African Airways, LIFT Airline and Emirates.

What are the main connections from Cape Town International Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Johannesburg (JNB, 399), Johannesburg (HLA, 73), Dubai (DXB, 24), Nairobi (NBO, 9) and Amsterdam (AMS, 8). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Cape Town? +

Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.

What are the codes for Cape Town International Airport? +

Cape Town International Airport has IATA code CPT and ICAO code FACT. It lies in Western Cape, South Africa, at coordinates -33.97403, 18.60433.

Is the flight data free and open? +

Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.

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Improve coverage over Cape Town

Coverage quality depends on the density of receivers. With a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR antenna you can help track flights over Western Cape, South Africa.

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