We consider approximate circular pattern matching (CPM, in short) under the Hamming and edit distance, in which we are given a length-n text T , a length-m pattern P , and a threshold k > 0, and we are to report all starting positions of fragments of T (called occurrences) that are at distance at most k from some cyclic rotation of P . In the decision version of the problem, we are to check if any such occurrence exists. All previous results for approximate CPM were either average-case upper bounds or heuristics, except for the work of Charalampopoulos et al. [CKP + , JCSS'21], who considered only the Hamming distance. For the reporting version of the approximate CPM problem, under the Hamming distance we improve upon the main algorithm of [CKP + , JCSS'21] from O(n + (n/m) • k 4 ) to O(n + (n/m) • k 3 log log k) time; for the edit distance, we give an O(nk 2 )-time algorithm. We also consider the decision version of the approximate CPM problem. Under the Hamming distance, we obtain an O(n + (n/m) • k 2 log k/ log log k)-time algorithm, which nearly matches the algorithm by Chan et al. [CGKKP, STOC'20] for the standard counterpart of the problem. Under the edit distance, the O(nk log 3 k) runtime of our algorithm nearly matches the O(nk) runtime of the Landau-Vishkin algorithm [LV, J. Algorithms'89]. As a stepping stone, we propose an O(nk log 3 k)-time algorithm for the Longest Prefix k -Approximate Match problem, proposed by Landau et al. [LMS, SICOMP'98], for all k ∈ {1, . . . , k}.We give a conditional lower bound that suggests a polynomial separation between approximate CPM under the Hamming distance over the binary alphabet and its non-circular counterpart. We also show that a strongly subquadratic-time algorithm for the decision version of approximate CPM under edit distance would refute the Strong ETH.