The sector is held by Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways, Naysa and Precision Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NBO Nairobi to DAR Dar es Salaam
Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 668 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 29m
- Door to door
- 8h 14m
What NBO to DAR looks like
The NBO to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nairobi NBO to Dar es Salaam DAR is a short sector of 668 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 668 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 29m.
Nairobi NBO is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 59 scheduled destinations and 148.6 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 NBO to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NBO to DAR | 7.14 | 50 | Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways, Naysa, Precision Air |
| DAR to NBO | 5.71 | 40 | Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways, Naysa |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 7.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 90 departures a week on NBO 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 1h 29m block time on NBO 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 NBO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NBO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NBO to DAR in the air, estimated | 89 min | 5h 59m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 7h 29m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 8h 14m |
| Door to door | 494 min | 8h 14m |
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 NBO to DAR is 8h 14m.
A courier who leaves Nairobi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 10:29 local and at the door by 12:44 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Nairobi is around 14:16 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. 23 of them join NBO to DAR.
| Connecting at | NBO to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zanzibar ZNZ | 5.29 | 34.57 | 675 | 2h 59m |
| Kilimanjaro JRO | 5.43 | 4.29 | 685 | 3h 01m |
| Entebbe EBB | 8.14 | 1.29 | 1,595 | 4h 08m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 3.29 | 3.43 | 2,928 | 5h 59m |
| Lusaka LUN | 1 | 1 | 3,316 | 6h 14m |
| Mahe SEZ | 0.57 | 0.57 | 3,920 | 7h 01m |
With 7.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Zanzibar ZNZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.3 times a day.
Through ZNZ the routing covers 675 km against the 668 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 59m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kilimanjaro JRO at 3h 01m and Entebbe EBB at 4h 08m 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 Nairobi 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 NBO 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 NBO airport entry
- The DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into Kenya
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Nairobi
- The written lane, Doha to Nairobi
- The written lane, Dubai to Nairobi
- The route calculator
More pairs through NBO and DAR: Dar es Salaam to Dubai, Dar es Salaam to Muscat, Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg, Mumbai to Dar es Salaam, Cairo to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam, Cape Town to Dar es Salaam.