Buses across East Africa
168 routes and 0 operators across 6 countries Fares and travel times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.

168 Buses routes run across East Africa, reaching 32 places in 6 countries through 0 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on October 13, 2026, the cheapest fare is None and the fastest trip is None door to door. A median route runs 329 km.
Buses in East Africa, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 168Routes we sell
- 42Corridors
- 32Places served
- 6Countries
- 0Operators
- 116Domestic routes
- 28Cross border routes
- 24Routes out of the region
- 329 kmMedian route
- 1,055 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across East Africa
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in East Africa, priced on October 13, 2026 for one passenger.
The corridors that matter in East Africa
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mombasa to Nairobi bus | None | None | 442 km |
| Arusha to Dar es Salaam bus | None | None | 479 km |
| Tanga to Dar es Salaam bus | None | None | 196 km |
| Kampala to Nairobi bus | None | None | 503 km |
| Maputo to Pretoria bus | None | None | 440 km |
| Arusha to Dodoma bus | None | None | 329 km |
| Nakuru to Nairobi bus | None | None | 136 km |
| Morogoro to Dar es Salaam bus | None | None | 178 km |
| Jimma to Addis Ababa bus | None | None | 259 km |
| Singida to Dodoma bus | None | None | 187 km |
| Kitale to Nairobi bus | None | None | 325 km |
| Kasese to Kampala bus | None | None | 278 km |
| Iringa to Arusha bus | None | None | 501 km |
| Nakonde to Dar es Salaam bus | None | None | 771 km |
| Bungoma to Nairobi bus | None | None | 324 km |
| Moyale to Nairobi bus | None | None | 590 km |
Countries in East Africa
Every country in East Africa we sell in, most routes first.
How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Buses, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 28 | 17% | Athi River, 26 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 120 | 71% | Bukoba, 202 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 20 | 12% | Dar es Salaam, 673 km |
Bus destinations
Other ways to travel across East Africa
Common questions about Buses across East Africa
How many Buses routes does Orlero sell across East Africa?
168 of them, across 6 countries reaching 32 places through 0 operators
Which countries in East Africa have Buses routes we sell?
Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia.
How far apart are the places we sell in East Africa?
The median route runs 329 km in a straight line and the shortest is 26 km. The longest we sell is 1,055 km, from Livingstone to Windhoek.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, travel times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.