Cape Town to Dar es Salaam flight

Flights from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam start at €331.72 and take 10h 7m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam starts at €331.72 and takes 10h 7m door to door, run by 2 operators over 3,834 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked September 22, 2026Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 7mDoor to door
  • 5h 55mMoving
  • €407.24 to €1,021.43From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 798.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 13, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€407.24 to €1,021.43 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 €673.92Wed23
  2. about €1,021.43Thu24
  3. about €860.36Fri25
  4. about €772.45Sat26
  5. about €524.06Sun27
  6. about €511.08Mon28
  7. about €597.22Tue29
  8. about €474.50Wed30
  9. about €499.28Thu1
  10. about €505.77Fri2
  11. about €469.78Sat3
  12. about €417.86Sun4
  13. about €407.24Mon5
  14. about €421.99Tue6

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 13, 2026

Cheapest€331.72
  1. Airlink (SAA) AS348007:303h 31m11:01Cape Town International Airport CPTRobert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport HRE
  2. Egyptair E344412:182h 37m15:55Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport HREJulius Nyerere International Airport DAR

Changes at Harare, with 77 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 35mCO2 796.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€370.66
  1. Airlink (SAA) AS821307:302h 9m09:39Cape Town International Airport CPTO.R. Tambo International Airport JNB
  2. Airlink (SAA) AS433310:413h 46m15:27O.R. Tambo International Airport JNBJulius Nyerere International Airport DAR

Changes at Johannesburg, with 62 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 7mCO2 801.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

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

A hotel room

A room in Dar es Salaam for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Dar es Salaam Central 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam

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

  1. €377.7490 days
  2. €345.8860 days
  3. €334.0845 days
  4. €405.4730 days
  5. €331.7221 days
  6. €421.9914 days
  7. €597.227 days
  8. €860.363 days
  9. €673.921 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €331.72.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 159 percent. The most expensive point is €860.36, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €417.86Sun
  2. €407.24Mon
  3. €421.99Tue
  4. €474.50Wed
  5. €499.28Thu
  6. €505.77Fri
  7. €469.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Cape Town

Air
  • CPT

Dar es Salaam

Air
  • DAR
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 3,834 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 Johannesburg, Harare. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Cape Town 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam take?

The Flight from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam takes 10h 7m door to door, of which 5h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 3,834 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam cost?

The Flight from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam starts at €331.72 for one passenger, as of September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €351.19. 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam?

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

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

Fares for the Flight from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €331.72. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 159 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam produces about 798.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3834 km, which works out at roughly 208 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 labeled 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 Cape Town to Dar es Salaam on September 22, 2026: 3834 km of route against 3698 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €331.72, and 10h 7m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Dar es Salaam is large, and the road in from DAR can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Dar es Salaam

Settled in advance, so the ride into Dar es Salaam costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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