Kigoma to Kibaigwa train

Trains from Kigoma to Kibaigwa start at €110.89 and take 7h 51m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Kigoma to Kibaigwa starts at €110.89 and takes 7h 51m door to door, run by 1 operator over 907 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 51mDoor to door
  • 7h 7mMoving
  • €122.44 to €218.14From
  • 06:18 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 29.9 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.

€122.44 to €218.14 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa 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 €213.74Mon21
  2. about €195.59Tue22
  3. about €178.54Wed23
  4. about €218.14Thu24
  5. about €212.09Fri25
  6. about €217.59Sat26
  7. about €159.29Sun27
  8. about €127.94Mon28
  9. about €127.94Tue29
  10. about €149.39Wed30
  11. about €151.04Thu1
  12. about €173.04Fri2
  13. about €173.59Sat3
  14. about €122.44Sun4

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€110.89
  1. Tanzania Railways TR177107:306h 5m13:35Kigoma stationDodoma SGR Terminal
  2. Tanzania Railways TR872115:1056m16:06Dodoma SGR TerminalKibaigwa station

Changes at Dodoma, with 95 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 20mCO2 30.1 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€126.29
  1. Tanzania Railways TR280106:187h 7m13:25Kigoma stationKibaigwa station

Door to door 7h 51mCO2 29.9 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€114.196h 56m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Kibaigwa for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Kigoma to Kibaigwa

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

  1. €157.6490 days
  2. €104.8460 days
  3. €82.8445 days
  4. €79.5430 days
  5. €114.7421 days
  6. €122.4414 days
  7. €159.297 days
  8. €178.543 days
  9. €213.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €79.54.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 169 percent. The dearest point is €213.74, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €122.44Sun
  2. €127.94Mon
  3. €127.94Tue
  4. €149.39Wed
  5. €151.04Thu
  6. €173.04Fri
  7. €173.59Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Kigoma

Rail
  • Kigoma 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 907 km against 788 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 Kondoa, Singida, Dodoma, Tabora. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Kigoma at 06:18 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa

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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa take?

The Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa takes 7h 51m door to door, of which 7h 7m is spent moving. The route runs 907 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa cost?

The Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa starts at €110.89 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €116.94. 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa?

1 operators run the Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa: 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa use?

The Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa leaves from Kigoma station and arrives at Kibaigwa 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa?

Fares for the Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €79.54. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 169 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa produce?

The Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa produces about 29.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 907 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa?

Operators on the Train from Kigoma to Kibaigwa publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 51m 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 Kigoma to Kibaigwa on 20 September 2026: 907 km of route against 788 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €110.89, and 7h 51m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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