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Frankfurt from Cape Town
9,383 km, about 12h 22m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Frankfurt and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.
- JanJFrankfurt in January: avoid
- FebFFrankfurt in February: ok
- MarMFrankfurt in March: ok
- AprAFrankfurt in April: good
- MayMFrankfurt in May: sweet spot
- JunJFrankfurt in June: sweet spot
- JulJFrankfurt in July: good, busy
- AugAFrankfurt in August: good
- SepSFrankfurt in September: good
- OctOFrankfurt in October: ok
- NovNFrankfurt in November: avoid
- DecDFrankfurt in December: avoid, busy
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Month by month from Cape Town
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| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Crowds | Verdict | Why |
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| Jan | 5° | 10d | 80 | avoid | bitter cold: 5C daily max |
| Feb | 8° | 9d | 100 | ok | 8C max, 9 rainy days |
| Mar | 12° | 9d | 73 | ok | 12C max, 9 rainy days |
| Apr | 16° | 7d | 80 | good | 16C max, 7 rainy days |
| May | 21° | 8d | 100 | sweet spot | 21C max, 8 rainy days |
| Jun | 26° | 8d | 76 | sweet spot | 26C max, 8 rainy days |
| Jul | 27° | 8d | 65 | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Aug | 27° | 8d | 72 | good | 27C max, 8 rainy days |
| Sep | 22° | 8d | 91 | good | 22C max, 8 rainy days |
| Oct | 16° | 9d | 85 | ok | 16C max, 9 rainy days |
| Nov | 9° | 10d | 100 | avoid | 9C max, 10 rainy days |
| Dec | 6° | 11d | 61 | avoid busy | busier than usual |
Rain days are the days with at least 2 mm of rain.
Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in ZA as well as at Frankfurt, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
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Nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from OpenRouteService, ferries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Times are typical, not a schedule, and none of this is a fare — the searches below are where prices live.
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