Dar es Salaam to Nairobi flight

Flights from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi start at €58.55 and take 4h 27m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi starts at €58.55 and takes 4h 27m door to door, run by 4 operators over 694 km, with around 24 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 27mDoor to door
  • 1h 17mMoving
  • €69.17 to €137.02From
  • 06:17 to 20:01First and last departure
  • 24Per day
  • 170.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€69.17 to €137.02 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €137.02Sat19
  2. about €124.63Sun20
  3. about €90.41Mon21
  4. about €89.82Tue22
  5. about €92.77Wed23
  6. about €115.78Thu24
  7. about €90.41Fri25
  8. about €90.41Sat26
  9. about €83.92Sun27
  10. about €73.30Mon28
  11. about €72.71Tue29
  12. about €78.61Wed30
  13. about €94.54Thu1
  14. about €69.17Fri2

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 October 5, 2026

Cheapest€58.55
  1. Swiss International Air Lines SI835111:431h 17m13:00Dar es Salaam DARNairobi NBO

Door to door 4h 27mCO2 170.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Fastest€78.02
  1. Kenya Airways KA300111:281h 17m12:45Dar es Salaam DARNairobi NBO

Door to door 4h 27mCO2 170.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
Kenya Airways€59.14
Air Tanzania€60.32
Swiss International Air Lines€58.55
Precision Air€58.55

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

A hotel room

A room in Nairobi for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Dar es Salaam to Nairobi

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

  1. €80.3890 days
  2. €47.9360 days
  3. €48.5245 days
  4. €57.9630 days
  5. €69.7621 days
  6. €69.1714 days
  7. €90.417 days
  8. €90.413 days
  9. €137.021 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €47.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 186 percent. The most expensive point is €137.02, 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. €83.92Sun
  2. €73.30Mon
  3. €72.71Tue
  4. €78.61Wed
  5. €94.54Thu
  6. €69.76Fri
  7. €90.41Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Dar es Salaam

Air
  • DAR

Nairobi

Air
  • NBO
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 694 km against 673 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dar es Salaam at 06:17 and the last at 20:01, across 24 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dar es Salaam to Nairobi

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 Dar es Salaam to Nairobi take?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi takes 4h 27m door to door, of which 1h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 694 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 Nairobi cost?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi starts at €58.55 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €76.25. 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 Dar es Salaam to Nairobi?

4 operators run the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi: Kenya Airways, Air Tanzania, Swiss International Air Lines, Precision Air. Between them they file around 24 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 Nairobi use?

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi leaves from Dar es Salaam DAR and arrives at Nairobi NBO. 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 Nairobi?

Fares for the Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €47.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi produces about 170.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 694 km, which works out at roughly 246 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.

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 Nairobi on September 18, 2026: 694 km of route against 673 km in a straight line, 24 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €58.55, and 4h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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

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A car waiting when you land in Nairobi

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

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