The sector is held by Air Tanzania.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CPT Cape Town to DAR Dar es Salaam
Cape Town International, South Africa, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,681 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 56m
- Door to door
- 11h 41m
What CPT to DAR looks like
The CPT to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cape Town CPT to Dar es Salaam DAR is a long haul sector of 3,681 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,681 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 56m.
Cape Town CPT is a smaller airport in the network held here, 34 scheduled destinations and 115.3 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Dar es Salaam is one hour ahead of Cape Town 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 CPT to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPT to DAR | 0.43 | 3 | Air Tanzania |
| DAR to CPT | 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 CPT 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 CPT 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 4h 56m block time on CPT 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 CPT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CPT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CPT to DAR in the air, estimated | 296 min | 9h 26m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 10h 56m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 11h 41m |
| Door to door | 701 min | 11h 41m |
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 CPT to DAR is 11h 41m.
A courier who leaves Cape Town at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 14:56 local and at the door by 17:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Cape Town is around 09:49 local.
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. 6 of them join CPT to DAR.
| Connecting at | CPT to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg JNB | 50.29 | 0.79 | 3,707 | 6h 44m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 1.43 | 3.43 | 6,993 | 10h 48m |
| Doha DOH | 1.71 | 1.14 | 11,271 | 15h 50m |
| Dubai DXB | 3.43 | 1.71 | 11,622 | 16h 30m |
| Istanbul IST | 0.86 | 1.14 | 13,889 | 19h 14m |
6 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Johannesburg JNB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.5 times a week.
Through JNB the routing covers 3,707 km against the 3,681 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 44m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 48m 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 10h 48m and Doha DOH at 15h 50m 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 Cape Town 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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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 CPT 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 CPT airport entry
- The DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into South Africa
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- The written lane, Cape Town to London
- The written lane, Dubai to Cape Town
- The written lane, Doha to Dar es Salaam
- The route calculator
More pairs through CPT and DAR: Cape Town to Johannesburg, Sao Paulo to Cape Town, Cape Town to Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam to Dubai, Dar es Salaam to Muscat, Nairobi to Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg.