The sector is held by Air Tanzania.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ACC Accra to DAR Dar es Salaam
Kotoka International, Ghana, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,584 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 01m
- Door to door
- 12h 46m
What ACC to DAR looks like
The ACC to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Accra ACC to Dar es Salaam DAR is a long haul sector of 4,584 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,584 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 01m.
Accra ACC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 32 scheduled destinations and 67.9 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Dar es Salaam is 3 hours ahead of Accra all year.
The pair sits inside Africa, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ACC to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC to DAR | 0.43 | 3 | Air Tanzania |
| DAR to ACC | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Tanzania, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg DAR to ACC carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on ACC to DAR, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 6h 01m block time on ACC to DAR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ACC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ACC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ACC to DAR in the air, estimated | 361 min | 10h 31m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 12h 01m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 12h 46m |
| Door to door | 766 min | 12h 46m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ACC to DAR is 12h 46m.
A courier who leaves Accra at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 18:01 local and at the door by 20:16 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Accra is around 06:44 local.
At 12h 46m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 8 of them join ACC to DAR.
| Connecting at | ACC to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi NBO | 1 | 7.14 | 4,859 | 8h 02m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.43 | 3.43 | 6,076 | 9h 42m |
| Johannesburg JNB | 0.86 | 0.79 | 7,110 | 10h 45m |
| Dubai DXB | 1.57 | 1.71 | 10,267 | 14h 53m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.43 | 1.14 | 10,354 | 14h 59m |
8 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nairobi NBO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NBO the routing covers 4,859 km against the 4,584 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 02m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Addis Ababa ADD at 9h 42m and Johannesburg JNB at 10h 45m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar ZNZ is 73 km away by great circle and carries 27 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Accra to Dar es Salaam yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Restrictions
Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ACC to DAR in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ACC airport entry
- The DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into Ghana
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Doha to Dar es Salaam
- The route calculator
More pairs through ACC and DAR: Accra to Beirut, Accra to Lagos, Accra to Addis Ababa, Accra to Casablanca, Accra to Johannesburg, Accra to Nairobi, Accra to Cairo, Dar es Salaam to Dubai.