DAR
Julius Nyerere International Airport
Julius Nyerere International Airport (IATA: DAR, ICAO: HTDA) is a large airport in Dar es Salaam, Dar-es-Salaam Region, Tanzania. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,000 m (9,843 ft). It is operated by Tanzania Airports Authority. In 2019 it handled 2.5 million passengers.
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap05/23045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32135° / 315°
LENGTH1,000 m3,280 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2008–20191.5M
1.4M
1.6M
1.8M
2.1M
2.3M
2.5M
2.5M
2.5M
2.4M
2.4M
2.5M
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Routes
51 destinations · 26 countriesYear-round51
ZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Coastal Aviation +272 km45 miMFAMafia AirportTanzania · Auric Air, Coastal Aviation127 km79 miPMAPemba AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Coastal Aviation192 km119 miTGTTanga AirportTanzania · Auric Air, Coastal Aviation199 km124 miMBAMoi International AirportKenya · Skyward Airlines319 km198 miMsalato International Airport (under construction)Tanzania · Air Tanzania388 km241 miDODDodoma AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania389 km242 miIRIIringa AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Auric Air391 km243 miMYWMtwara AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Precision Air400 km249 miJROKilimanjaro International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Precision Air450 km280 miARKArusha AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Flightlink, Precision Air483 km300 miSGXSongea AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania581 km361 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Skyward Airlines, Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways +1667 km414 miHAHPrince Said Ibrahim International AirportComoros · Air Tanzania684 km425 miMBISongwe AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania692 km430 miTBOTabora AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania733 km455 miKBHKahama AirstripTanzania · Precision Air796 km495 miSUTSumbawanga AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania846 km526 miMWZMwanza International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Flightlink +1852 km529 miNPYMpanda AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania899 km559 miDZADzaoudzi Pamandzi International AirportMayotte · Ewa Air937 km582 miGTCChato/Geita AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania949 km590 miLLWKamuzu International AirportMalawi · Malawi Airlines971 km603 miBKZBukoba AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania1,025 km637 miEBBEntebbe International AirportUganda · Air Tanzania, Uganda Airlines1,074 km667 miTKQKigoma AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania1,078 km670 miBLZChileka International AirportMalawi · Malawi Airlines1,082 km672 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir1,143 km710 miBJMBujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International AirportBurundi · Air Tanzania1,164 km723 miNLASimon Mwansa Kapwepwe International AirportZambia · Air Tanzania1,352 km840 miFBMLubumbashi International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Air Tanzania1,384 km860 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Zambia Airways, Air Tanzania1,503 km934 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Air Tanzania, Air Zimbabwe1,512 km940 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines1,763 km1,095 miSEZSeychelles International AirportSeychelles · Air Tanzania1,821 km1,132 miVFAVictoria Falls International AirportZimbabwe · Air Tanzania1,912 km1,188 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Air Tanzania, Airlink2,437 km1,514 miFIHNdjili International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Air Tanzania2,644 km1,643 miCPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Air Tanzania3,683 km2,289 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,818 km2,372 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Air Tanzania, Oman Air3,972 km2,468 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates, Air Tanzania3,977 km2,471 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir4,196 km2,607 miLOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Air Tanzania4,253 km2,643 miACCKotoka International AirportGhana · Air Tanzania4,584 km2,848 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air Tanzania4,683 km2,910 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,459 km3,392 miVKOVnukovo International AirportRussia · Air Tanzania6,948 km4,317 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM7,345 km4,564 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Air Tanzania7,468 km4,640 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Air Tanzania8,710 km5,412 miCargo5
NBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Astral Aviation, Kenya Airways667 km414 miFBMLubumbashi International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Air Tanzania1,384 km860 miFIHNdjili International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Air Tanzania2,644 km1,643 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Tanzania3,977 km2,471 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Air Tanzania4,683 km2,910 miMost destinationsAir Tanzania 38Precision Air 7Auric Air 6Coastal Aviation 4Flightlink 3Skyward Airlines 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DAR. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Julius Nyerere International Airport” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
3 channelsACCCON119.300
APPAPP119.600
TWRTWR118.300