Dar es Salaam

23 · Tanzania

Dar es Salaam is one of the world's mega-cities of Tanzania, with a population of around 5.4M. This page covers the essentials — climate, currency, transit links — so you can plan a stop here without digging through a guidebook.

Population

5.4M

Timezone

Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

Currency

TZS

Coordinates

-6.823, 39.270

🗺 Map 📖 Wikipedia

Nearest airports

DAR — Julius Nyerere International Airport (9 km) ZNZ — Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (67 km) TGT — Tanga Airport (194 km)

Other cities in Tanzania

Mwanza Dodoma Zanzibar Arusha Mbeya Morogoro Kahama Tanga Geita Tabora

City data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).