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Cheap Flights from Ireland to Cape Town

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Ireland to Cape Town that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals from Ireland to Cape Town

Sat, Sep 19 - Fri, Sep 25
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20:35 - 18:35DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
45h 00m2 stops Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl Johannesburg OR Tambo
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0:10 - 22:55CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
23h 45m1 stop London Gatwick
R9 741Multiple Airlines
Thu, Sep 3 - Wed, Sep 16
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20:35 - 19:55DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
46h 20m2 stops Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl Johannesburg OR Tambo
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0:10 - 18:55CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
19h 45m1 stop London Gatwick
R9 806Multiple Airlines
Sun, Jan 24 - Fri, Feb 5
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18:35 - 10:40DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
14h 05m1 stop Zurich
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9:30 - 11:20CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
27h 50m2 stops Munich Franz Josef Strauss Zurich
R11 065SWISS
Fri, Jan 22 - Wed, Feb 10
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18:35 - 7:35DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
35h 00m1 stop Zurich
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9:30 - 11:20CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
27h 50m2 stops Munich Franz Josef Strauss Zurich
R11 114SWISS
Mon, Nov 9 - Tue, Nov 17
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10:40 - 23:00DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
34h 20m1 stop Istanbul
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0:55 - 9:35CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
34h 40m1 stop Istanbul
R11 228Turkish Airlines
Wed, Nov 4 - Tue, Nov 17
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10:40 - 12:05DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
23h 25m1 stop Istanbul
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0:55 - 22:15CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
23h 20m1 stop Istanbul
R11 277Turkish Airlines
Tue, Jan 12 - Tue, Feb 2
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21:20 - 17:25DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
18h 05m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
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12:35 - 6:00CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
19h 25m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
R11 457Qatar Airways
Tue, Jan 12 - Tue, Mar 9
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21:20 - 17:25DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
18h 05m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
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12:35 - 6:00CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
19h 25m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
R11 473Qatar Airways
Wed, Nov 4 - Wed, Nov 18
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13:25 - 13:35DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
22h 10m3 stops Amsterdam Schiphol Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Livingstone
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14:25 - 14:30CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
26h 05m3 stops Victoria Falls Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Paris Charles de Gaulle
R11 473Kenya Airways
Thu, Nov 12 - Mon, Nov 16
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5:45 - 13:35DUB  Dublin-CPT Cape Town Intl
29h 50m3 stops Amsterdam Schiphol Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Victoria Falls
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14:25 - 18:25CPT  Cape Town Intl-DUB Dublin
30h 00m3 stops Victoria Falls Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Paris Charles de Gaulle
R11 473Kenya Airways
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to Cape Town

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights 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 to Cape Town?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights 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 to Cape Town is September, where tickets cost R13 222 on average for return flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of tickets from Ireland is R22 554 and R20 822 respectively. For one-way flights, the best month to travel is April with an average price of R6 864.

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

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to Cape Town, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 15% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 23 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low season

July

Cheapest flight

R5 328
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 31% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (41% more expensive on average)
Flight from Dublin to Cape Town

FAQs - booking Cape Town flights

  • How far is Cape Town Intl Airport from central Cape Town?

    There are 16 km between Cape Town city centre and Cape Town Intl Airport.

  • What is the name of Cape Town’s airport?

    All flights to Cape Town land at Cape Town Intl Airport. The airport code is CPT,and it can also be referred to as Cape Town or Cape Town Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights 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 to Cape Town.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights 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 with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight 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 up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • How many direct flights to Cape Town are there each week?

    Each week there are around 1 349 direct flights from within Ireland to Cape Town. The most common day for departures is Friday, with 16% of flights taking off on this day.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Cape Town

  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Cape Town flight deals.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Ireland to Cape Town

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Cape Town. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from Ireland to Cape Town. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with 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.
7,8
KLMOverall score based on 1555 reviews
7,7Comfort
7,3Food
8,4Crew
7,8Boarding
7,2Entertainment
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Flight lead was a gentleman with silver hair and he went out of his way to shake hands and interact with each passenger seated in business class. A medical emergency took place during our flight and he handled it with perfect poise and professionalism. He was gracious and confidently competent. Just what you want from a leader,

10,0 ExcellentEmily, Jul 2026
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Flight lead was a gentleman with silver hair and he went out of his way to shake hands and interact with each passenger seated in business class. A medical emergency took place during our flight and he handled it with perfect poise and professionalism. He was gracious and confidently competent. Just what you want from a leader,

As always, it’s a pleasure to travel with KLM. It is one of my favorite airlines.

Delay and had to run between flight to get my connection due to this delay but besides that the overall experience was ok. I arrived with just an hour of delay.

Cabin crew professional, polite and friendly, boarding was seemless, but come on KLM surely you can do better than a pack of cheesy biscuits as an inflight snack

KLM is my favourite airline. Never ever let us down.Staff are first class.

The food from Lagos to Amsterdam was was very poor compared to AMS-YYZ

Booked connecting flights with KlM. My serving flight was the furthest part of the airport. On arrival in Zurich. My two cases arrived but only one carry on belong to my son. His three suitcase didn't arrive. After enquiring we discovered they were still in Amsterdam. We landed at 11.12. We eventually left the airport just after one.

I thought KLM was the best airline but the Lima - Amsterdam was 1 hours late, the Brussels - Amsterdam was 2.30 hours late and the Amsterdam - Lima was 30 minutes late

The flight itself it was great nice food the crew were very nice and helpful, Checking in from Birmingham wasn't great long queues for bag dropped, And I had my hand luggage case taken away from me even though I requested to have it with me as I had breakables items. I was told I can not because of the length of the flight with no explanation at all no options was given for me to take my fragile items out of my case it was taken away with hold buggage I find the staff member who was checking me in very unpleasant !! Can we please be advise if the rules have changed about the the carry on hand luggage it will be easier to be advise on booking your tickect if we not allowed to take the hand luggage with me. Overall I had a good flight .

Amazing KLM service and brilliant economy comfort seats. Well worth the extra.

Our flight delayed, due to the incoming flight arriving late from Paris. AF caused us to miss our connecting flight, also booked through Air France directly. They couldn't accommodate us until later that night, and we had to be in AMS earlier than that. They won't do anything else to help us and wanted to charge us more money to rebook us too. Not great service, since it was all their fault.

I don’t like that an equipment change caused my seat to change from 23A to 44A. The boarding was also delayed. The crew were excellent, however and very attentive. The food was not bad.

Worst airlines either. First leg was delayed because of crew not available. My connection was missed so they booked me automatically the next day! But, impossible to get anyone on site, web site does not let me access my reservation anymore, confirmed by useless agents over the phone. My 2-leg trip with part in business class arriving at 4:10pm ends up in an awful 3-leg arriving at 9pm the next day with no way to even choose the seats and of course at the very end of the plane. I can understand problems arrive but the way Air France handle it is just unacceptable. You are on your own. Apparently getting you to your destination is the only thing they consider their duty. The customer experience and fatigue is none of their concern. And I have a status with them. I will reconsider my priorities when flying with Air France and encourage everyone to do the same.

The only reason the overall rating wasn't "excellent" was due to problems in claiming luggage. The bags are delivered to the main area (Cinta 35) for domestic passengers, but to a DIFFERENT ROOM for international arrivees. After waiting 30 minutes, someone (who didn't appear to be from Air France or the airport) told us to go to another area. There we found our bags, which appeared to have been awaiting us for a while. We had to go through a bag check before leaving the airport. If we had been alerted to this possibility, or better yet, been to go directly to Cinta 34, we could have eliminated quite a bit of waiting.

Georgian Airways check in staff initially denied us, because they thought passengers required transit visas to transfer on connecting flights. This required 70 minutes for them to call multiple people to confirm how transfers worked. They did not apologize once accepting our check in. Onboard, the four hour flight gave stale bread with spam slices as lunch. The only included drinks were still or sparkling water.

Not a good one this time. The absence of internet without any information/notification ahead was really the unacceptable part. Also this new A350-900 has a serious legroom challenge for economy seats. It’s more like a medium-haul flight legroom configuration.

A disaster. Air France is a real joke. They overcharge us customers for absolutely nothing. Service was very poor, food was mediocre, entertainment non existent, etc. We paid thousands of dollars for our business class tickets and then we were told in Paris we could not access its lounge. Really Air France ? Congratulations on irritating your customers to the sky high level and ensuring we will do everything in our power to discourage others to travel with you.

Everything went smoothly with Air France. There was a delay in departure which seemed to relate to the immigration services being short staffed.

Crew was professional. Boarding has few seats . Since the plane was not full would have been nice to change seat on the internet

I paid extra for a seat with more leg room but they changed the plane and found myself in an ordinary seat. This is expensive at 50€

It was very good. It was a long flight and being a tight with little leg room.

I am a big person and have back pain and swelling in my legs, so this was a challenging flight due to confined space. I didn't find the crew very friendly either. I will think twice before flying long distances with Qatar again, due to the lack of legroom.

The space was tight, hardly any leg room and the crew surprisingly were busy and did not take the time to attend to passengers, felt rushed. There was a delay for check in since the systems were down the airport staffs were accommodating

Moved seats, didn't accommodate requests to change seats even though other seats were available.

My seat that I booked over a year ago and some other passenger was sitting in it. They said they could not walk and they would not move. I was with my young kid and the crew did nothing to accommodate that. Just disappointed that the airline accepts that excuse from a passenger.

I didn't understand why I got dropped off at departures on exiting the plane at Doha aiport. I had to find my own way to immigration/baggage reclaim which wasn't easy as staff in the departure section just tell you ti scan your boarding pass. This was very poor b qatar Airways. I spent 2 hours soyung this out and once I got to get my suitcase it was delayed. So instead of getting to the hotel at about midnight I got there at three in the morning. I wonder why I upgraded to business?

The seats are extremely small and very uncomfortable for a long trip , no space to even move the legs or keep the legs little bit folded, very uncomfortable

Everything from start to end was good and easy plus clean i enjoy my trip in qatar airline

Flight delayed, rerouted, communication extremely poor. Crew efficient but robotic, not supportive

Very tight seating. Crew seemed too dis interested and too slow to remove main meal trays.

Very good. I was happy that business seats were in a 1-2-1 configuration for the long haul flight. The shorter flight was a 2-2-2 configuration which I do not like as much, but it was a 3 hour flight that I slept through.

Turkish Airlines lost my reservation!!! I had the ticket, the receipt and they lost it!! Because the flight was fully booked, I had to wait 8 hours!!! Turkish Airlines provided me with NO FOOD, NO WATER!!! Absolutely ridiculous. They were pathetic. They admitted it was their fault for losing my reservation but provided me with nothing.

Not good. I was supposed to be in Mint but got in economy class

Amazing! Big line at Check in was diminished in 10 minutes. Boarding was quick and efficient. Service and food great. Only minor point: seats could be a little broader and for me being small, something to put your feet on during the flight would be great.

Make sure to request a vegetarian meal in advance. They printed out menus for all passengers with the options but by the time they were halfway through (for breakfast and dinner), the vegetarian options were already all taken.

Very good except the boarding process too forever and wasn’t organized by group. I had a heavy pack or I wouldn’t have minded. I was in business. There were no audible announcements in the waiting area about boarding and everyone packed into the boarding area. Then boarding stopped for a long time but the staff made no announcements to update waiting passengers about the holdup. The flight was good after we got on.

Entertainment monitors did not work in the seats & it was so hot in the cabin. One of the most uncomfortable flights I've ever taken.

Crew was not proactive and were busy laughing and talking instead of attending the passenger’s needs. Meals were served in a hurried manner.

This is the first and last time I will be traveling Turkish airlines. The flight was delayed three times. Second time we sat on the aircraft for approximately an hour and a half. Initially told that the delay would only be 15 minutes then no explanation thereafter except that we were deboarding. We missed our connecting flights to Zimbabwe, and had to pay for a overnight hotel stay in addition to paying for a new tickets to our get to our final destination. They allowed us to order food from the airport food court but only from fast food and even that they limited the menu items we could select. I would some to contact me about the refund on the hotel and the connecting flight!

We felt that many passengers where coughing too much and the crew didn’t care. Like come on we got sick because they didn’t make them were a mask and when we say cough we mean cough We wish that they cared more about other passengers

The crew were excellent, smiling and kind. The seats were good for economy though my seat back got a bit sticky from getting out of the reclining position. The food was good for a Kosher meal, better than usual. Entertainment was okay, but there was no Wi-fi available the entire flight. Overall the flight was fine for an overnight flight. The flight attendant in my section was absolutely delightful.

We boarded the plane and waited for 30 minutes ultimately for them to cancel the flight due to engineering issues.

Love the little chocolate bars, and consumer rights in EU regarding stepped refunds when flights are delayed.

Staff are really not attentive. Seem rather disinterested in attending to the customers in general.

Staff was rude in business class. Luggage was damaged and nothing was done about it airlines.

We were helped whenever needed and had a pleasant flight.

Food was OK.. nothing to rave about but it was tasty enough. Many choices to choose from for entertainment. Seats tight but comfortable. Flight attendants cheerful & helpful.

The flight was smooth and on time. Check-in and boarding was very efficient. The flight was very comfortable and there was good entertainment and food on offer.

Narrow, uncomfortable seats with metal structures under the seats that made it impossible to sit normally. You had to put your legs in oblique positions, causing pain in your spine and legs. This type of seats should only be allowed on short local flights of up to 2 hours, not on 10-hour intercontinental flights where you can hardly walk and go to the toilet due to lack of space. There is no question of short "walks" enabling circulation, due to lack of space. The plane's staff did not respond to calls and were engaged in long and loud conversations among themselves. They served only at assigned times to deliver meals. The entertainment system was not working properly and was hanging. The headphones didn't work properly either.

Plane was delayed 1 hour on the Chicago O'hare tarmack waiting for a gate. I had a 2 hr. layover & barely made my connecting flight by 5 min.

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