Internet conditions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Measured as the district of Kinondoni, Dar-Es-SalaamLocal time Africa/Dar_es_SalaamMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within Tanzania
Cmiddle fifth of 24 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
29/ 100
14th percentile worldwide · 13th of 24 in Tanzania
Conditions
Typical week
299ms latency
Jitter 83 ms · steadier than 40% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
1episode · 6 days
Latest ended 3 Nov 2025
Conditions

Where this is

The district the measurement describes.

District outline, KASPR boundary layer

Conditions

The week, hour by hour

Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.

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Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Wed 02:00 (5% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Wed 16:00 (73%)Swing 12.9 points: the hour of the week matters a little here
Score

What makes the score

Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within Tanzania.

Speed
3 · 26
Stability
25 · 30
Evening
33 · 26
Reliability
66 · 78
Trend
37 · 5
worldwide percentilewithin TanzaniaWeights 30 / 25 / 20 / 20 / 5
Score

Two years of months

Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.

2949228096Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index +11.7% against a year earlier
Sites

Disruptions

Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.

29 Oct 2025 – 3 Nov 2025Collapse, 6 days, 92% below baselinelatest

Worst hours of a typical week: Wed 16:00, Tue 16:00, Tue 15:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 73%.

Sites

Other cities

Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.

ENairobi263 ms
BAddis Ababa203 ms
CJohannesburg301 ms
CKhartoum212 ms
EKinshasa312 ms
BLuanda267 ms
ERiyadh210 ms
CDubai197 ms

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What to do with this

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When to connect from Dar es Salaam

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Questions people ask

Is the internet in Dar es Salaam good?
By world standards Dar es Salaam sits in the 14th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 299 ms typical latency and 83 ms jitter. Within Tanzania it ranks 13th of 24, in the middle fifth.
When is the internet in Dar es Salaam worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Wed 16:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 73%. The steadiest is Wed 02:00 at 5%. Between them, the hour of the week matters a little here.
Were there internet outages in Dar es Salaam recently?
One episode in the last twelve months, 6 days in all. The latest ran from 29 Oct 2025 to 3 Nov 2025, with responding addresses 92% below the district’s baseline.
How is this measured?
KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.

Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures