Dar es Salaam eSIM
In Dar es Salaam you connect to Vodacom or Airtel, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 24 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Vodacom and Airtel
- Real speed in Tanzania
- 24 Mbps median, 5 Mbps for the slowest tenth286 travellers across Tanzania, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Dar es Salaam
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $13.89 | $13.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $9.96 | $29.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $9.18 | $45.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $7.69 | $76.89 |
How Tanzania compares across Africa
- Speed rank
- 17 of 20 destinations we sell in Africa
- Regional median
- 29.5 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 21 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Vodacom, Airtel
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Nigeria, 26 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Zambia, 24 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Zanzibar, Arusha, Dar es Salaam
- tenth percentile
- 5 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 286 travellers, rolling 90 days
Landing at Julius Nyerere International Airport (DAR)
- Airport
- DAR / HTDA
Getting into Dar es Salaam
- Road transfer from the airport, which lies west of the central business district (DAR)
Worth knowing about Dar es Salaam
- Julius Nyerere International splits traffic across three terminals: Terminal 3, opened in August 2019, handles international flights while Terminal 2 handles domestic and regional ones, so a connection to Zanzibar or Arusha means changing terminal.
- There is no rail link from the airport: a rail shuttle to the city was proposed and coaches bought as far back as 2014, but the connection is not running.
- Dar es Salaam's DART bus rapid transit opened its first phase on 10 May 2016 and is the city's main mass transit; there is no metro.