Visa on arrival

Somalia visa for citizens of Tanzania

Citizens of Tanzania get a Somalia visa on arrival at passport control. You don’t apply in advance, but border officers check your passport, return ticket and accommodation. Visago checks your documents before you travel. It costs $19.

For citizens of Tanzania: the passport opens 42 countries visa-free; Dodoma — Mogadishu: ≈ 1,400 km, about 2.5 hours of flying.

Checked by visa analyst Albert Brown, 13 years of experience · September 26, 2026

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Can I travel to Somalia without a visa on a Tanzania passport?

You don’t need to apply in advance: citizens of Tanzania get the visa on arrival. To avoid problems at the border, we check your documents for $19.

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Somalia visa rules at a glance

With a Tanzania passport you can visit 42 countries visa-free, 21 with a visa on arrival and 40 with an e-visa; 95 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Tanzania passport ranks 116th of 199.
Tanzania passport: visa-free access to 42 countries; Somalia passport: 11.
Citizens of Tanzania and Somalia can travel together visa-free to 10 countries, for example: Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Benin, Gambia, Malaysia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Haiti, and Micronesia.
Citizens of Somalia, in turn, need an e-visa to travel to Tanzania. Tanzania visa for citizens of Somalia

Travelling to Somalia: good to know

Dodoma — Mogadishu: about 1,400 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 2.5 hours.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Somali Shilling.
Languages: Arabic and Somali.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ SOS 571.
Somalia is the 10th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Tanzania.