Tap the Share icon in Safari’s toolbar, then choose “Add to Home Screen”. It’ll open straight to Driving Distance next time, like an app.
Pick a major hub and a destination town to get the road distance between them and a rough driving-time estimate. These are direct-route road distances (not straight-line “as the crow flies” figures) between Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban and 30 other South African towns and cities — useful for trip planning, and pairs neatly with the Fuel Cost and Toll Calculator pages.
| Town | To Johannesburg | To Cape Town | To Durban |
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Those three are South Africa’s major metros and the most commonly searched trip origins. Building a true point-to-point calculator between any two of the 30+ towns listed would need a live routing service rather than a fixed reference table — for now this covers the three most useful starting points. If you need a distance between two smaller towns, add the two hub distances as a rough guide, or use a mapping app for an exact route.
It’s the standard, most commonly used route between each pair — usually the fastest, not necessarily the absolute shortest. Actual distance can vary a little depending on the exact route, road works, or detours.
Distance divided by an assumed average of 90km/h, which is a reasonable long-distance-trip average on South African national roads — it does not include fuel, food or rest stops, border crossings, traffic in and around cities, or load-shedding-affected robots. Add extra time for all of those on a real trip.
No — this page is distance and time only. Use the Toll Calculator and Fuel Cost Calculator alongside it for the full cost of a trip.