Flights from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam (NBO-DAR): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Nairobi -> Dar es Salaam (NBO-DAR) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

35 scheduled departures a week link Nairobi (NBO) in Kenya with Dar es Salaam (DAR) — about 5 a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 8/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Nairobi to Dar es Salaam is one of the busiest short-haul links in East Africa, connecting Kenya with Tanzania, with around 35 flights a week — five a day. The route carries business travellers, traders, tourists and connecting passengers. Block time is about an hour and a half.

Great-circle distance Nairobi–Dar es Salaam is about 668 km, computed from the stored coordinates of NBO (-1.32, 36.93) and DAR (-6.88, 39.20). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 668 km against a scheduled 1.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches NBO–DAR. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

2 carriers operate NBO–DAR: Kenya Airways (KQ) and PW. Our carrier table records a checked-baggage baseline of 23 kg for Kenya Airways and holds no baseline for PW; Kenya Airways sits in SkyTeam, with no alliance recorded for PW. Frequency on the corridor is about 35 weekly departures.

Two carriers fly NBO-DAR: Kenya Airways and Precision Air, both flying the short regional sector direct. With several flights a day between them, the route is built for flexibility — a missed flight rarely means a long wait.

USD fares — NBO-DAR

$210 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for NBO–DAR on PW, for a 2026-10-13T08:35:00+03:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for NBO–DAR on that date.

As a short, high-frequency regional route, NBO-DAR is competitively priced. Fares rise around the December holidays. One to three weeks of lead time usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.

Across the 5 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on NBO–DAR is $123 for a Oct 2026 departure and the dearest is $148 for Jul 2026 — a spread of $25 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

NBO–DAR fare history — 2026-W20 to 2026-W29

4 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached NBO–DAR low between $144 and $237 — a $93 spread, 65% of the cheapest reading. The cheapest reading is also the most recent, 2026-W29. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low fell 39% between the first and last reading, from $237 to $144. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 4 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $144 was achievable on NBO–DAR inside the window, so a quote well above $237 is worth a second search.

Carriers behind the readings: PW. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.

Baggage on NBO–DAR: baselines, uplift and the exclusions

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for 1 of the 2 airlines on NBO–DAR (Kenya Airways); we hold no baseline for PW, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +5 kg on Kenya Airways. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent.

The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On NBO–DAR the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +5 kg on Kenya Airways — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Search live fares

35 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live NBO–DAR search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $210. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing NBO–DAR quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 1.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

If anything about your NBO–DAR trip can move, make it the dates. The gap between the cheapest and dearest departure month in our own fare log is routinely larger than any difference between one booking site and another. Fixed dates put you in competition with everyone else holding the same date, and the answer there is to book early rather than to keep looking.

About Dar es Salaam

2 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Dar es Salaam (DAR), Julius Nyerere International, ICAO HTDA, from 2 catalogued origins and 3 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Dar es Salaam, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Dar es Salaam is the largest city of Tanzania and its main commercial centre, a busy port on the Indian Ocean coast. For travellers from Nairobi it is a business and trade destination, closely tied to Kenya by trade and the movement of people.

Beyond NBO, our catalogue reaches Dar es Salaam from 1 other origin: Johannesburg (JNB). That matters when the NBO–DAR fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

On the ground Tanzania uses TZS, while every fare on this site is quoted in USD. That split is deliberate: USD is the only currency that makes a Lagos fare and a Nairobi fare comparable on one page, but it means the card you pay with will convert twice if your bank settles in a third currency. Airline sites often offer payment in TZS or in your home currency — the airline’s own rate is rarely the better of the two.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Nairobi to Dar es Salaam? Direct NBO-DAR flights are operated by Kenya Airways, PW. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the NBO-DAR flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.5 hours. The NBO-DAR route runs roughly 35 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a NBO-DAR flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $400-900 USD band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on NBO-DAR? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Dar es Salaam? Dar es Salaam uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to NBO–DAR through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Nairobi airport (NBO) — Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya: 19 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.
• Dar es Salaam airport (DAR) — Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.

Internal links on this site are placed from the data, not from a keyword list: a corridor is linked when it shares an origin, a destination, a carrier or an audience cluster with the page you are on. If a link above looks unrelated to your trip, it probably shares a carrier or a hub rather than a destination.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the NBO–DAR fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Dar es Salaam is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.