Dar es Salaam
City in Tanzania: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Dar es Salaam is a city in Tanzania, in Dar es Salaam Region. About 5.4 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Tanzania in our atlas.
It lies at 6.82° S, 39.27° E, about 24 m (79 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Dar_es_Salaam time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Dar es Salaam. Green dots: other major cities of Tanzania. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Dar es Salaam has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 23°C (73°F). Around 1,131 mm (45 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Apr.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in TanzaniaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Kibaha · 39 km
- Zanzibar · 74 km
- Morogoro · 177 km
- Tanga · 196 km
- Dodoma · 396 km
- Arusha · 478 km
- Songea · 585 km
- Mbeya · 682 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 160263 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1960 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- TZ DarEsSalaam National museum: User:Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Old Boma Dar es Salaam bird view: Kipala, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- BridgeOfLight: Makambi.kin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
