Dar es Salaam eSIM
In Dar es Salaam you connect to Vodacom or Airtel, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 24 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Vodacom and Airtel
- Typical speed in Tanzania
- 24 Mbps typical, 5 Mbps at busy times
- 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
- Regional typical speed
- 29.5 Mbps
- 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
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.
- The Mwendokasi smart card costs 1,000 shillings including its first credit and is bought at the main DART terminals.
- You top up a Mwendokasi card with M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Mix by Yas, a bank, the app e-wallet or a ticket officer. The balance must stay between 1,000 and 90,000 shillings.
- A paper QR code ticket must be used within 30 minutes of purchase and only at the terminal where it was bought.
- A QR ticket bought in the Mwendokasi app expires three hours after purchase, and the terminal chosen at purchase cannot be changed afterwards.
- The Mwendokasi app is free on Google Play and the App Store and covers ticketing, journey planning, routes, schedules and incident reports.
- DART fares are 1,000 shillings on trunk routes, 500 on feeder routes, 700 on the Mloganzila feeder route and 200 for students.
- DART phases one and two are listed as complete, phase one covering 21.5 km, with phases three to six still under construction or planned.
- TCRA states that a user pays nothing to register a phone line by biometrics.
- Terminal 1 at Julius Nyerere handles mainly private, charter and small aircraft, and a separate VIP terminal opened in January 2026. The airport handled 2,887,382 passengers in 2024.