Dar es Salaam to Cape Town flight

Flights from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town start at €334.67 and take 10h 5m at their fastest.

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Downtown Cape Town at night, from the roof of the Strand South hotel.

The Flights from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town starts at €334.67 and takes 10h 5m door to door, run by 2 operators over 3,811 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 5mDoor to door
  • 5h 58mMoving
  • €411.37 to €945.91From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 798.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€411.37 to €945.91 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. 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 €764.19Wed23
  2. about €945.91Thu24
  3. about €868.03Fri25
  4. about €715.22Sat26
  5. about €552.97Sun27
  6. about €508.13Mon28
  7. about €591.91Tue29
  8. about €465.65Wed30
  9. about €464.47Thu1
  10. about €519.34Fri2
  11. about €478.63Sat3
  12. about €411.37Sun4
  13. about €422.58Mon5
  14. about €424.94Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€334.67
  1. Egyptair E876007:302h 28m08:58Julius Nyerere International Airport DARRobert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport HRE
  2. Airlink (SAA) AS799709:553h 30m13:25Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport HRECape Town International Airport CPT

Changes at Harare, with 57 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 5mCO2 796.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

The flight gets you into Cape Town. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Cape Town for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Cape Town railway 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 Cape Town

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

  1. €391.3190 days
  2. €311.6660 days
  3. €347.0645 days
  4. €407.2430 days
  5. €365.3521 days
  6. €424.9414 days
  7. €591.917 days
  8. €868.033 days
  9. €764.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €311.66.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 179 percent. The dearest point is €868.03, 3 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. €411.37Sun
  2. €422.58Mon
  3. €424.94Tue
  4. €465.65Wed
  5. €464.47Thu
  6. €519.34Fri
  7. €478.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Dar es Salaam

Air
  • DAR

Cape Town

Air
  • CPT
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,811 km against 3,698 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Harare, Johannesburg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dar es Salaam at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dar es Salaam to Cape Town

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 Cape Town take?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town takes 10h 5m door to door, of which 5h 58m is spent moving. The route runs 3,811 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 Cape Town cost?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town starts at €334.67 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €345.29. 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 Cape Town?

2 operators run the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town: Egyptair, Airlink (SAA). Between them they file around 2 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 Cape Town use?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town leaves from Julius Nyerere International Airport DAR and arrives at Cape Town International Airport CPT. 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.

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

Fares for the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €311.66. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 179 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town produces about 798.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3811 km, which works out at roughly 210 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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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 Cape Town on 22 September 2026: 3811 km of route against 3698 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €334.67, and 10h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Cape Town is large, and the road in from CPT can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Cape Town

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

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