Current time in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
11:46:34 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Dar es Salaam is on East Africa Time, UTC+3. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 5.4 million people live in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Scheduled flights use Julius Nyerere International Airport (DAR, 9 km away) and Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ, 67 km away).
- Time zone
- Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- UTC offset now
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 5:57 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:16 PM
- Daylight
- 12 h 19 min
- Population
- 5,383,728
- Currency
- Shilling (TZS)
- Dialing code
- +255
- Languages (country)
- Swahili, English
- Airports
- DAR 9 km · ZNZ 67 km
Cities near Dar es Salaam
- Nairobi11:46 AM · ±0 h673 km away
- Kampala11:46 AM · ±0 h1,087 km away
- Kigali10:46 AM · −1 h1,156 km away
- Addis Ababa11:46 AM · ±0 h1,763 km away
- Johannesburg10:46 AM · −1 h2,461 km away
- Kinshasa9:46 AM · −2 h2,665 km away
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