Photo: Alex Petrenko · CC BY SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tanzania
English, Swahili · TZS · East Africa Time
How it scores for living there
- 28%Cost of livingRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
- 30%Income taxRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- AppliesCapital gainsRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 9MbpsInternetRated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 0.13Doctors /1,000Rated 1 of 5 for living there, bad
- 20PM2.5 ug/m3Rated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 3.7Homicide /100kRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 67.2Life expectancyRated 1 of 5 for living there, bad
- 31%People onlineRated 1 of 5 for living there, bad
- 41Corruption indexRated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 12of 12Mild monthsRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
Facts, not judgements
- UTC+3Time zone
- TZSCurrency
- English+1Language
- D, GPower plug
- 1.5mVisitors in 2019
Colour says whether a figure is good for someone moving in, not whether it is high: cheap is green and expensive is red. Every coloured box carries the reason for its colour, the bar under it repeats the score as a width, and boxes with no data are not drawn.
Nomads in Tanzania
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Who can help you in Tanzania
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Climate and cost by city
Sea off Zanzibar City: warmest March at 30°C, coolest August at 26°C.
Average monthly temperature and rainfall from Open-Meteo ERA5 (2019-2023 mean, CC BY 4.0). Sea surface temperature from Open-Meteo Marine. Price level from the World Bank ICP survey, same-year pairing, omitted where the survey does not cover the country.
Cost of living and lifestyle
Day to day, Tanzania costs about 28% of the US level, on a World Bank income of $4k per person (PPP, 2025).
That percentage is measured against your country, not against ours. It follows the country picker in the header, or your account if you are signed in. With neither, it falls back to the United States, which is the 100 of the World Bank index, and the sentence says so.
World Bank ICP price level (US=100) and GNI per capita PPP, CC BY 4.0. It is a national average: a capital runs above it and a small town below it.
Getting to Tanzania
Its main airport has non-stop service to 8 airports in the OpenFlights route database.
| From | Routing | Flight time | Cheapest fare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai | Non-stop | 5h 30m | €381 |
| Milano | Non-stop | 8h 30m | €2652 |
| Frankfurt | Non-stop | 9h 00m | €706 |
| Amsterdam | Non-stop | 9h 50m | €678 |
| Paris | Non-stop | 11h 30m | €970 |
Airports and non-stop routes from OpenFlights (Open Database License). Fares and flight times are cached one-way economy prices from Travelpayouts, the cheapest seen recently rather than a live quote or an average. They move; treat them as an order of magnitude.
What to see in Tanzania
Ordered by how many people looked each place up over the last twelve months, so the list is measured interest and not our taste.
dormant volcano
Mount Kilimanjaro
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lake
Lake Victoria
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UNESCOWorld Heritage Site
Stone Town
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lake
Lake Tanganyika
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UNESCOprotected area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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river
White Nile
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UNESCOtransboundary protected area
Serengeti National Park
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lake
Lake Malawi
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Photo credits
- Mount Kilimanjaro: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Victoria: Khanairobi, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Stone Town: No machine-readable author provided. Mbz1 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Tanganyika: Orrling, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Jantjeerkamp at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- White Nile: User DEMOSH on flickr.com, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Serengeti National Park: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Malawi: Joachim Huber from Switzerland, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The practical basics
- Local time…East Africa Time, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- CurrencyTZSISO 4217
- LanguagesEnglish, Swahili
- PlugsD, G230/400 V 50 Hz
- Safe tap water31%of people on a safely managed supply, World Bank 2024
- UK travel adviceAdvises against travelFCDO, reviewed 2026-05-19
- Population70.5mWorld Bank
Currency codes ISO 4217; plugs and voltage from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); time zone and flag from the countries-states-cities database (ODbL 1.0); travel advice from the UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3).
How many people visit
Tanzania logged 1.5 million international arrivals in 2019, the last year the World Bank series covers.
World Bank indicator ST.INT.ARVL, international tourism arrivals, CC BY 4.0. Arrivals count trips, not people: the same visitor twice in a year counts twice.
Tax in Tanzania, in one line
Personal income tax runs up to 30 per cent. Capital gains: Single instalment tax of 10% for residents on gains from realisation of investment assets (30% on mineral/petroleum rights). Gains also form part of taxable income.
Tax figures are compiled by us and are being re-verified against primary sources. General information, not tax advice.
Data: World Bank, Open-Meteo, M-Lab, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, under open licences. General information, not tax or legal advice.