Travel to Gaborone

Every way to reach Gaborone: 2 modes compared, with fares.

Gaborone is reachable from 12 places across 6 countries by 2 modes, on services run by 6 operators. The cheapest arrival costs €33.34 and the fastest takes 2h 20m door to door. The nearest origin is 195 km away.

Checked October 1, 2026Priced for October 1, 2026One passenger, all fees included

Arriving

How people reach Gaborone

Every mode that actually calls at Gaborone, with the cheapest fare and the fastest journey on each.

One row per mode that actually calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
ModeOriginsFromFastestReachOperators
Train8€33.342h 20m421 km1
Flight17€36.133h 56m3,995 km5
  • 12Places you can arrive from
  • 12Places you can leave for
  • 6Countries
  • 6Operators

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Gaborone is not something we sell.

A hotel room

A room in Gaborone for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Gaborone Bus Rank and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km28%Mahalapye, 195 km
200 to 600 km1248%Palapye, 265 km
600 to 1,500 km832%Livingstone, 758 km
Over 1,500 km312%Nairobi, 2851 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Countries with at least one route into Gaborone that we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Botswana1248%
South Africa416%
Zambia416%
Kenya28%
Zimbabwe28%
Ethiopia14%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Gaborone

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

Gaborone

Bus
  • Gaborone Bus Rank
  • Kanye buses
Air
  • GBE

GBE is not in Gaborone, 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

A car waiting when you land in Gaborone

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

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Fares

The cheapest journeys into Gaborone

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Gaborone, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Mahalapye to Gaborone train€33.342h 20m195 km
Johannesburg to Gaborone flight€36.133h 56m275 km
Serowe to Gaborone train€44.893h 7m265 km
Palapye to Gaborone train€44.892h 53m265 km
Francistown to Gaborone flight€50.294h 12m421 km
Francistown to Gaborone train€57.543h 53m421 km
Maun to Gaborone flight€65.634h 24m579 km
Livingstone to Gaborone flight€82.744h 35m758 km
Harare to Gaborone flight€99.854h 54m927 km
Lusaka to Gaborone flight€112.245h 1m1,058 km
Cape Town to Gaborone flight€132.305h 25m1,260 km
Nairobi to Gaborone flight€316.387h 51m2,851 km
Addis Ababa to Gaborone flight€412.559h 7m3,995 km

Check-in is at three and you will be in Gaborone well before then. Lockers are not something we run.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Gaborone Bus Rank

Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.

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Popular trips to Gaborone

Common questions about Travel to Gaborone

How can I get to Gaborone?

Gaborone is reachable by 2 modes on our network, from 12 places, across 6 countries, on services run by 6 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to Gaborone?

The cheapest way into Gaborone is by Train, from €33.34 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 12 origins we sell into Gaborone over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to Gaborone?

The fastest journey into Gaborone is by Train, at 2h 20m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 195 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does Gaborone have?

Gaborone has 3 named terminals on our network, including 0 rail stations and 1 airports. Among them are GBE. Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to Gaborone from within 200 km?

2 of the routes we sell into Gaborone start within 200 km. The nearest is Mahalapye, 195 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or bus beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from Gaborone in Botswana?

Gaborone connects to 12 places on our network across 6 countries, the furthest of them 3,995 km away in a straight line. Botswana routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in Botswana

The wider region

The trip is the easy half to plan. The days in Gaborone are the half people leave until last.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Gaborone and across Botswana

The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.

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