Overall score
Use the Dar es Salaam profile to compare cost framing, country-level transport and healthcare context, and coastal resilience.
Overall60/100
Affordability76/100
Air quality56/100
Energy54/100
Tanzania / East Africa
Dar es Salaam City Intelligence
Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest city and a major Indian-Ocean port, useful for cross-region East-African comparison. Dar es Salaam is a east africa city of about ~7.4M metro in Tanzania. On the composite city-intelligence score, Dar es Salaam sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (60/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~7.4M metro
City profile
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Verified image pending
Overall city intelligence
Mixed60/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Dar es Salaam data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 60/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 76/100 | Dar es Salaam's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 56/100 | Dar es Salaam's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 54/100 | Dar es Salaam's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 57/100 | Dar es Salaam's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 57/100 | Dar es Salaam's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 54/100 | Dar es Salaam's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 54/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Dar es Salaam
Local public safety guidance for Dar es Salaam, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Dar es Salaam, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Tanzania emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Dar es Salaam
Healthcare context for Dar es Salaam, with national-level information from Tanzania where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Dar es Salaam, see the Tanzania healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Dar es Salaam
Local mobility context for Dar es Salaam, with national-level context from Tanzania where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Dar es Salaam, see the Tanzania transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Dar es Salaam. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Dar es Salaam
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Dar es Salaam will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Dar es Salaam air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Dar es Salaam modules
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Cost of Living in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Estimate a monthly budget for Dar es Salaam
Estimate a monthly budget for Dar es Salaam using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Dar es Salaam
Plan a trip budget for Dar es Salaam using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Interpretation
Use the Dar es Salaam profile to compare cost framing, country-level transport and healthcare context, and coastal resilience. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (76/100) and safety (57/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (54/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Tanzania country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Dar es Salaam appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.