Dar es Salaam to Moshi train

Trains from Dar es Salaam to Moshi start at €58.09 and take 4h 30m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Dar es Salaam to Moshi starts at €58.09 and takes 4h 30m door to door, run by 1 operator over 508 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 18 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 30mDoor to door
  • 3h 46mMoving
  • €69.09 to €142.79From
  • 06:32 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 16.8 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.

€69.09 to €142.79 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.

Tanzania Railways runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Dar es Salaam to Moshi on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €127.39Sat19
  2. about €142.79Sun20
  3. about €98.24Mon21
  4. about €86.14Tue22
  5. about €100.99Wed23
  6. about €114.74Thu24
  7. about €91.64Fri25
  8. about €88.89Sat26
  9. about €85.59Sun27
  10. about €69.09Mon28
  11. about €72.39Tue29
  12. about €82.84Wed30
  13. about €83.94Thu1
  14. about €84.49Fri2

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 7 October 2026

Cheapest€58.09
  1. Tanzania Railways TR324707:3045m08:15Dar es Salaam Central StationZanzibar station
  2. Tanzania Railways TR256509:423h 26m13:08Zanzibar stationMoshi station

Changes at Zanzibar, with 87 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 22mCO2 17.0 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€64.69
  1. Tanzania Railways TR682206:323h 46m10:18Dar es Salaam Central StationMoshi station

Door to door 4h 30mCO2 16.8 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Tanzania Railways€64.694h 13m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Moshi for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Dar Express - Moshi office 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 Moshi

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

  1. €79.5490 days
  2. €46.5460 days
  3. €51.4845 days
  4. €53.1430 days
  5. €81.7421 days
  6. €84.4914 days
  7. €91.647 days
  8. €98.243 days
  9. €127.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €46.54.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 174 percent. The dearest point is €127.39, 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. €85.59Sun
  2. €69.64Mon
  3. €72.39Tue
  4. €82.84Wed
  5. €83.94Thu
  6. €84.49Fri
  7. €88.89Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Dar es Salaam

Rail
  • Dar es Salaam Central Station
  • Dar es Salaam station (TAZARA)
  • Dar es Salaam Kamata railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 508 km against 442 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Handeni, Zanzibar, Tanga, Arusha. The gap between arriving and leaving is 73 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dar es Salaam at 06:32 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dar es Salaam to Moshi

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 Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi take?

The Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi takes 4h 30m door to door, of which 3h 46m is spent moving. The route runs 508 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 Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi cost?

The Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi starts at €58.09 for one passenger, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare is €65.79. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi?

1 operators run the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi: Tanzania Railways. Between them they file around 5 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 Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi use?

The Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi leaves from Dar es Salaam Central Station and arrives at Moshi station. Allow about 44m 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 Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi?

Fares for the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €46.54. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 174 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi produce?

The Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi produces about 16.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 508 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi?

Operators on the Train from Dar es Salaam to Moshi publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 30m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

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 Moshi on 18 September 2026: 508 km of route against 442 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €58.09, and 4h 30m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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