Africa · Eastern Africa

Tanzania

13 cities in the atlas · 9 airports with scheduled flights

Plan a trip to Tanzania Ask our visa desk

Serengeti National Park · Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Dodoma
Currency: TZS; Tanzanian Shilling
Local time: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +255
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G

Facts

Tanzania in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Dodoma
Currency: Tanzanian Shilling TZSToday's indicative rate: TZS 1,000 ≈ USD 0.38Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Swahili and EnglishSpoken: Swahili, English and Arabic
Time zones: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +255
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112police114fire115ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 70,545,865 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 945,087 km²
Internet domain: .tz
Land borders: Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Kenya Malawi Mozambique Rwanda Uganda Zambia

When to go

Climate across Tanzania

In January to October, more than half of the 12 cities with figures in Tanzania have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Dodoma	28°	29°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°	29°	31°	33°	33°	30°
Dar es Salaam	30°	30°	30°	29°	28°	28°	27°	28°	28°	29°	30°	30°
Arusha	30°	31°	30°	27°	26°	25°	26°	27°	29°	30°	29°	29°
Mwanza	27°	28°	28°	27°	28°	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°	27°	26°
Zanzibar	29°	30°	30°	29°	28°	27°	27°	27°	28°	29°	29°	30°
Morogoro	29°	29°	28°	27°	27°	26°	27°	29°	31°	32°	32°	30°
Mbeya	22°	22°	22°	22°	21°	20°	20°	22°	25°	26°	25°	23°
Tanga	29°	30°	30°	29°	28°	27°	26°	26°	27°	28°	29°	29°
Tabora	27°	27°	27°	28°	29°	28°	28°	30°	32°	33°	30°	27°
Sumbawanga	24°	24°	24°	23°	23°	23°	23°	25°	28°	29°	27°	24°
Cities good for going, of 12	7	10	8	8	9	12	12	12	10	8	5	5

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Tanzania is

Cities

Cities in Tanzania

All 13 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 1

Mtwara

Airports

Airports in Tanzania

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 5

Photographs

Tanzania in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Zanzibar
Photo: Paul Brockmeyer from Chicago, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Tanzania

Tanzania
Zanzibar

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

Ask our visa desk

Plan it

Plan a trip to Tanzania

Tell us where in Tanzania, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Tanzania All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.