Dakar to Addis Ababa flight

Flights from Dakar to Addis Ababa start at €616.10 and take 12h 49m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Dakar to Addis Ababa starts at €616.10 and takes 12h 49m door to door, run by 1 operator over 6,317 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 49mDoor to door
  • 9h 39mMoving
  • €616.10From
  • 934.9 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€529.37
  1. Air Burkina AB140007:301h 57m09:27Dakar DSSBamako BKO
  2. Ethiopian Airlines EA864311:047h 19m18:23Bamako BKOAddis Ababa ADD

Changes at Bamako, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 3mCO2 1045.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€582.47
  1. Ethiopian Airlines EA419706:369h 39m16:15Dakar DSSAddis Ababa ADD

Door to door 12h 49mCO2 934.9 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Ethiopian Airlines€579.5211h 35m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Ethiopian Airlines

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

A hotel room

Where to stay in Addis Ababa

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Booking window

When to book Dakar to Addis Ababa

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

  1. €699.2990 days
  2. €368.8960 days
  3. €512.8545 days
  4. €502.2330 days
  5. €741.1821 days
  6. €709.9114 days
  7. €774.227 days
  8. €953.583 days
  9. €1,348.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €368.89.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 266 percent. The most expensive point is €1,348.88, 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. €759.47Sun
  2. €643.24Mon
  3. €616.10Tue
  4. €744.13Wed
  5. €917.00Thu
  6. €741.18Fri
  7. €763.60Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Dakar

Air
  • DSS
  • DKR

Addis Ababa

Air
  • ADD
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 6,317 km against 6,133 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 Lomé, Ouagadougou, Cotonou, Bamako. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 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. 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 Dakar at 06:36 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 Dakar to Addis Ababa

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 Dakar to Addis Ababa take?

The Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa takes 12h 49m door to door, of which 9h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 6,317 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 Dakar to Addis Ababa cost?

The Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa starts at €616.10 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €548.25. 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 Dakar to Addis Ababa?

1 operators run the Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Airlines. 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 Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa use?

The Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa leaves from Dakar DSS and arrives at Addis Ababa ADD. 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 Dakar to Addis Ababa?

Fares for the Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €368.89. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 266 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa produce?

The Flight from Dakar to Addis Ababa produces about 934.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6317 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Dakar to Addis Ababa on September 11, 2026: 6317 km of route against 6133 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €616.10, and 12h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

ADD is not in Addis Ababa, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from ADD into Addis Ababa?

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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