Dar es Salaam to Arusha flight

Flights from Dar es Salaam to Arusha start at €43.21 and take 4h 12m at their fastest.

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The station yard was built in 1899 and saw structural additions throughout the 20th century.This was the site of the first stone building in Nairobi in 1904 which was a Catholic church. That church now meets at the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family. When the railway connection between Kenya and Tanzania closed in 2006, rail services ceased to operate between the two countries. A bus route, however, provides international transport between Nairobi and Arusha .

The Flights from Dar es Salaam to Arusha starts at €43.21 and takes 4h 12m door to door, run by 5 operators over 494 km, with around 30 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 12mDoor to door
  • 1h 2mMoving
  • €53.24 to €118.73From
  • 06:05 to 20:10First and last departure
  • 30Per day
  • 121.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€53.24 to €118.73 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €118.73Thu17
  2. about €96.90Fri18
  3. about €98.67Sat19
  4. about €75.07Sun20
  5. about €65.63Mon21
  6. about €64.45Tue22
  7. about €69.76Wed23
  8. about €70.35Thu24
  9. about €66.81Fri25
  10. about €66.81Sat26
  11. about €62.09Sun27
  12. about €57.37Mon28
  13. about €53.24Tue29
  14. about €56.19Wed30

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€43.21
  1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KL946716:481h 4m17:52Dar es Salaam DARArusha JRO

Door to door 4h 14mCO2 121.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines€43.21
Precision Air€44.39
Qatar Airways€44.39
Air Tanzania€43.80
Rwandair Express€43.80

The flight gets you into Arusha. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Arusha for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Arusha Central Train Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Dar es Salaam to Arusha

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €45.5790 days
  2. €43.8060 days
  3. €46.7545 days
  4. €45.5730 days
  5. €45.5721 days
  6. €56.1914 days
  7. €69.767 days
  8. €98.673 days
  9. €118.731 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.80.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 171 percent. The dearest point is €118.73, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €62.09Sun
  2. €57.37Mon
  3. €53.24Tue
  4. €56.19Wed
  5. €70.35Thu
  6. €66.81Fri
  7. €66.81Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Dar es Salaam

Air
  • DAR

Arusha

Air
  • JRO
  • ARK
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 494 km against 479 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dar es Salaam at 06:05 and the last at 20:10, across 30 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Flights against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train4h 2m3h 18m44m€49.2915.8 kg8
Flight4h 12m1h 2m3h 10m€43.21121.5 kg30

Questions about Dar es Salaam to Arusha

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha take?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha takes 4h 12m door to door, of which 1h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 494 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha cost?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha starts at €43.21 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €53.54. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha?

5 operators run the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Precision Air, Qatar Airways, Air Tanzania, Rwandair Express. Between them they file around 30 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha use?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha leaves from Dar es Salaam DAR and arrives at Arusha JRO. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

Is the Flight the best way from Dar es Salaam to Arusha?

Travelling from Dar es Salaam to Arusha by Train costs €49.29 and takes 4h 2m door to door, against 4h 12m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha?

Fares for the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.80. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha produce?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha produces about 121.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 494 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Dar es Salaam to Arusha on 16 September 2026: 494 km of route against 479 km in a straight line, 30 services a day, 5 operators a cheapest fare of €43.21, and 4h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from JRO into Arusha is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Arusha

Settled in advance, so the ride into Arusha costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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