waypoints.now
waypoints / 🇿🇦 ZA / Cape Town – Dakar Timings are not live · Documented
Route · ZA

Cape Town to Dakar

2 operators run this water, from 456 h 00 to 600 h 00 — a difference of 144 h 00 on the same crossing. Dakar has an airport 7 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Silversea Cruises Cape Town → Dakar 6606 km crossing 456 h 00 rate not held 14 km/h average
Hapag Lloyd Cruises Cape Town → Dakar 6606 km crossing 600 h 00 rate not held 11 km/h average

Other ways to reach Dakar

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Dakar without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Fort-de-France – Dakar 264 h 00 Ponant Cruises
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Dakar 264 h 00 Ponant Cruises
Lisbon (Oriente) – Dakar 312 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions, Silversea Cruises
Tema Harbour-Accra – Dakar 312 h 00 Silversea Cruises
Funchal – Dakar 336 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Buenos Aires – Dakar 576 h 00 Silversea Cruises

And other ways to reach Cape Town

Durban – Cape Town 96 h 00 MSC Cruises
Victoria Falls – Cape Town 216 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope
Johannesburg – Cape Town 240 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope
Port Louis – Cape Town 240 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Azamara Cruises
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Cape Town 312 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Mahe Island Seychelles – Cape Town 360 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Sal Island – Cape Town 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Palma de Mallorca – Cape Town 432 h 00 AIDA Cruises, TUI Cruises
Rio de Janeiro – Cape Town 432 h 00 Silversea Cruises
Southampton – Cape Town 432 h 00 Cunard, PO Cruises

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Cape Town–Dakar crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. The choice between Silversea Cruises at 456 h 00 and Hapag Lloyd Cruises at 600 h 00 is mostly a price decision, and we hold no prices for either.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.