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$282 Find Cheap Flights from Dubai to Johannesburg

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Cheapest round-trip
$480
Overall average: $555
RwandAir
Sun 2/8Mon 2/23
DXB - JNB • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$808
Typical prices: $770-846
Emirates
Mon 11/10Thu 11/20
DXB - JNB • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Dubai to Johannesburg (DXB-JNB)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Dubai to Johannesburg 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 round-trip flight deals from Dubai to Johannesburg

Sun, Feb 8 - Mon, Feb 23
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1:50 am - 2:20 pmDXB-JNB
14h 30m1 stop
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4:50 pm - 8:30 amJNB-DXB
13h 40m1 stop
$480RwandAir
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Mon, Feb 9 - Mon, Feb 23
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6:55 am - 3:50 pmDXB-JNB
10h 55m1 stop
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5:00 pm - 5:45 amJNB-DXB
10h 45m1 stop
$500Kenya Airways
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Sat, Nov 1 - Wed, Nov 12
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1:10 pm - 3:55 amDXB-JNB
16h 45m1 stop
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3:10 am - 3:50 amJNB-DXB
22h 40m2 stops
$592Qatar Airways
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Mon, Feb 9 - Mon, Feb 23
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10:25 pm - 3:35 pmDXB-JNB
19h 10m1 stop
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4:50 pm - 11:40 amJNB-DXB
16h 50m2 stops
$616Qatar Airways
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Sat, Dec 13 - Mon, Jan 12
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5:10 pm - 3:55 amDXB-JNB
12h 45m1 stop
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11:00 pm - 3:45 pmJNB-DXB
14h 45m1 stop
$645Ethiopian Air
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Wed, Dec 10 - Sat, Jan 3
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5:10 pm - 3:55 amDXB-JNB
12h 45m1 stop
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8:20 am - 3:45 pmJNB-DXB
29h 25m1 stop
$674Ethiopian Air
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Sat, Oct 25 - Sat, Oct 25
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4:25 am - 1:05 pmDXB-JNB
10h 40m1 stop
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5:00 pm - 12:30 amJNB-DXB
29h 30m1 stop
$688Multiple Airlines
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Thu, Nov 20 - Fri, Nov 28
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1:50 am - 2:20 amDXB-JNB
26h 30m1 stop
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4:50 pm - 11:40 amJNB-DXB
16h 50m2 stops
$721Multiple Airlines
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Mon, Nov 10 - Thu, Nov 20
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2:25 pm - 8:35 pmDXB-JNB
8h 10mnonstop
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1:25 pm - 11:40 pmJNB-DXB
8h 15mnonstop
$808Emirates
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Sun, Feb 8 - Mon, Feb 23
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4:10 am - 10:25 amDXB-JNB
8h 15mnonstop
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10:25 am - 8:25 pmJNB-DXB
8h 00mnonstop
$813Emirates
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Dubai to Johannesburg flights

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Dubai to Johannesburg?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Dubai to Johannesburg, you should consider leaving on a Wednesday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Dubai, you’ll find the best rates on Fridays and the most expensive ones on Mondays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, 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 Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport is March, where tickets cost $549 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $851 and $796 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, 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 on the flight from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, 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 25 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Dubai to Johannesburg

 
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Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$282
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 3% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 28% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Dubai to Johannesburg

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dubai to Johannesburg based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Dubai to Johannesburg flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport was $282 for a one-way ticket and $480 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Dubai and Johannesburg?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in Dubai and on arrival in Johannesburg.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Dubai to Johannesburg?

    Dubai airport is called Dubai Intl and the only airport in Johannesburg is Johannesburg OR Tambo.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Dubai to Johannesburg?

    The Boeing 777-300ER is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Dubai to Johannesburg flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Dubai to Johannesburg?

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

  • On which days can I fly direct from Dubai to Johannesburg?

    There are nonstop flights from Dubai to Johannesburg on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Dubai to Johannesburg, Emirates or South African?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Dubai to Johannesburg are Emirates and South African. With an average price for the route of $800 and an overall rating of 8.1, Emirates is the most popular choice. South African is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $930 and an overall rating of 7.5.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Dubai to Johannesburg?

    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 Dubai to Johannesburg.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Johannesburg from Dubai 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 Dubai to Johannesburg?

    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 Johannesburg with an airline and back to Dubai with another airline. Booking your flights between Dubai and JNB can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

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

    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 Johannesburg from Dubai up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Dubai to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $567 or less one-way and $755 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Dubai to Johannesburg?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Dubai Intl to Johannesburg OR Tambo.
Find which airlines fly direct from Dubai Intl Airport to Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

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Johannesburg OR Tambo to Dubai Intl

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Dubai to Johannesburg

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Dubai to Johannesburg. 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.
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EmiratesOverall score based on 3366 reviews
8.3Crew
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
8.2Entertainment
7.9Food
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Crew were excellent and the bar service and chat fantastic. Cheese board delicious. Amenity kit good, very disappointing not getting pyjamas on this leg of the flight and needed to reuse from earlier flight.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Oct 2025DXB - MAN
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Crew were excellent and the bar service and chat fantastic. Cheese board delicious. Amenity kit good, very disappointing not getting pyjamas on this leg of the flight and needed to reuse from earlier flight.

Sadly I couldn't get the food I requested as it was out. Also, if you don't want to be woken up make sure the crew knows it. My wife was woken on every service.

Three meals on a single flight is disgusting. Even if I reject them all, sleeping is impossible and all that food (especially wasted food) is just antithetical to a pleasant flight experience. People were chucking multiple abandoned trays on the floor in front of my seat.

Hospitality is good. Should improve on buggage handling because l lost a suitcase. Layover in Dubai was too long , 6 hours

Can’t complain Only downside was the Kiosk passport check and customs clearance at Melbourne. When will they improve that service🤔

Similar to Hyd->Dubai this too was worst airlines. Bad seats, bad seating arrangement which created lot of confusion since family member were not given seat together. However most of them changed the seat and got with the family. Cheap tactics by Emirates.

Emirates need to improve the boarding process. There is no point calling for all First and Business Class passengers plus Platinum, Gold and Silver Skywards members at one time. Further to this, try channeling all these people into one entry point with no defined lines. It was chaos. The is a common issue on the Dubai to Riyadh flight. Poor effort Emirates.

The staff on board were excellent. Kind, thoughtful, helpful - not just with me but with others around that I observed. Wonderful service.

Emirates First Class is always a treat with Caviar and service is always personalised.

Very pleasant.The crews are very nice.Food were excellent.

The food options were beef or veg, No alternatives for Hindus, that don't eat beef...

Flight was on time Seats ( business class) are terrible- you keep on slipping down as it doesn’t lie flat Food service is like economy class. Meals ( still wrapped in plastic) are just dropped in front of you

On time flight; otherwise not impressed by the check- in- purchased business class and the aircraft was downgraded; no refund given for the difference. Told I could access the lounge due to the above and was questioned by the lounge check- in person who was not friendly

Flight was cancelled with no notification until I reached the check-in desk at the airport. I also got downgraded and they lost my luggage.

Very bad. Linda the hostess was very rude all the time

Very bad, Linda the hostess was very rude all the time

The flight SA227 on 2nd March Sao Paulo to Cape Town was delayed by 3 hours. All other flights leaving Sao Paulo left on time. We were told that we were waiting for push back and a routing from Air traffic control. I don't believe this, what was the real reason for the flight delay?

I think more immigration officers at Or Tambo- I spent 90 mins in a queue before I can assisted and most people missed their appointments and meetings

Not sure it was a basic airline so nothing much to like but what was annoying was they delayed so much we missed our connecting flight and we had to almost fight to be out on the next flight and also even get food

Everything the crew werr nice and helpful plus the food was good

The flight overall was good. The attendants did a good job except that 1 female had too much fragrance on. The other things that made the flight unpleasant were out of the airlines control.

Nothing to complain. The staff and flight was good especially the seats which was better compared than the cloth ones on Qatar airways

I wish the leg room was better for Economy especially for the outbound flights to India . The outbound flight to US and Qatar was good

The check-in and crew staff were wonderful. The food was reasonable. The online side Qatar was very poor. Seats were very tight and not very comfortable for a 14 hour flight!

It was excellent in all respects. I don’t think it needs any improvement

Awful plane to Tashkent. Not even possible to sleep. In business class does not even recline fully

The flight was smooth Thank God but the delays and changing gates for 3-4 times made me so tired of walking back and forth with heavy bags I thought I was going to pass out with heavy headaches but Thank God finally found the final gate and home safe. These delays happen anytime for important reasons so just be patient when you come across these situations.

The Achilles heel of the experience with Qatar Airways is the Doha Airport, especially for travellers arriving into Doha and not transiting. This airport suffers from being ambitiously big and the immigration into Qatar being overly time taking. At the end of my particular flight in which my travel was ending in Doha, the plane parked at a very remote terminal, from where it took me 30 minutes to arrive just at the immigration counter, with fast paced walking and the time on a train inside the airport. Then, at the immigration counter it takes up to a minute or more to process each tourist visitor,due to time taking face and finger scanning processes and langugage barriers if there are questions or information to be exchanged verbally with the officers. If several planes have landed at the same time, it is not unusual that one has to wait 45 to 60 minutes in the immigration queue. In short, the frustration of arriving at Doha takes away all positive vibe of the airline, as the airline and the airport are heavily intertwined and are marketed together.

I had to stay in the airport 15 even with a hotel reservation..i was refused to inter to qatar cuz the hotel was outside the airport. They could have offered a solution. It was really exhausting for me and my family.

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

They only gave us 30 minutes to make an international connecting flight. We didn’t make the connection but they did do a good job rebooking us despite the chaos. Our bags didn’t make it back and their process for customer support is pretty bad when it comes to luggage.

The Boeing 737 MAX on this route, flown in the middle of the night, is an UTTER FAILURE for business travellers. The whole point of business travel is to arrive alert and recover from travel quickly, and this little aeroplane with its quarter recline uncomfortable business seats does nothing for that. It’s a small step up from economy in that you have decent legroom, but that’s it. Absolute margin at the cost of the traveller.

Good. Crew do seem to be less friendly- management are clearly limiting them or not empowering them as they used to.

Food hardly ever changes Videos not often updated for often travel.

The flight is packed and it feels like the space per individual has gotten smaller. Excruciating for a 14hr flight.

Were not told that carryon laggage has to be only 12 kgs but my bag was heavier asked to pay an additional $550.00. I could have upgraded to a bussiness class for that price and no one at the gate to upgrade but able to take money for the extra weight. I felt like this was a setup scam.

Forgotten Suite inside of the top compartment but went back to ask and they didn’t leave at the lost and found place. Also the checking in was so horrible. I had multi city and one of the passenger saint have visa go go go Dubai. The Ethiopian airlines never had information about requirement for US permanent resident so couldn’t go to Dubai. And when coming back to US we were told we can not use our Addis to Washington ticket and they forced us to get new ticket. Very horrible experience.

I had a comfortable seat that makes my trip wonderful. I appreciate the Ethiopia crew, they were very helpful

The hygiene was super bad. Smells bad and air refreshment is highly advisable. The crew made some one else sit in my spot and no one is checking seat number and people are jumping to sit on other people’s allocated seat.

The flight itself was fine. The exception is that my luggage was destroyed, and I filed a claim that I haven't heard from anyone.

For a long haul flight, the seats were too narrow. Paid for extra legroom but wish I could have paid for width! I was pressed against another person for the whole donation of the flight.

Delayed flight made my day very long, but other than that KQ got me to my destination in good shape.

The nice treatment and lovely pilots who accepted my son inside for a photo.So lovely of them

Got delayed for over 24 hours. Fight was cancelled. Was put up at a nice hotel whose kitchen was unfortunately not prepared for the sudden influx of guests The headphone jacks on the seat were loose and sound kept getting dropped over the headphones. Food was good though. Certain items (Amarula) were not available for purchase over the on-plane duty free. Had been told i would pick my luggage at my final destination*wrong* had to pick it up in JFK and recheck it and then got charged for it**** too tired to argue with the Delta staff on the issue.... after a 15 hr flight.

This one is not bad even it is late, but they apologize and every time they announced the update.

I’m very disappointed for this trip and I will never travel again in this airline. In addition, I don’t recommend to any human being to travel to Kenya Airways. They keep me at Nairobi for 4 days without care. I was at Nairobi from 6 a.m Morning up to 10 a:m Thursday. For that reason, I have trouble for my work and may be I will lose my job. During for those 4 days I didn’t have my medicine, I didn’t have clothes to change because all my clothes were in my checked bags. On Thursday, when I got flight, they don’t even apologize for all consequences I had. During for those 4 days, I learned many things for this airline. It is their system to treat passengers like this because they had hundreds or thousands passengers around Nairobi waiting for their flights after their original flights cancelled. If I lose my job, I planned to file claim to the airline. This is not airline to travel with.

They weight duty free goods at check in and count the weight as carry on luggage. Results : for 4 bottles I had to opay $150. rip off. Be careful to avoid any duty free shopping at Dubai airport

The boarding was fast, the food was great; however, the seats & leg space were tight.

I enjoyed my flight I arrived safe with all my luggage

No complaints just improve on the food service. Provide enough dinner. People are complaining about that.

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