Accra to Dakar

Flights Accra -> Dakar (ACC-DSS) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

7 scheduled departures a week link Accra (ACC) in Ghana with Dakar (DSS) — roughly one a day — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 2.8 hours.

Accra to Dakar links two of West Africa’s coastal capitals — a route that runs on regional business, trade and family travel rather than long-haul tourism. It connects English-speaking Ghana with French-speaking Senegal, and the traffic reflects that: professionals, traders, and people with ties across the region. Air Senegal operates the link at around 7 flights a week, roughly daily, which makes it a dependable working route.

Block time is short, close to 2.8 hours. For travellers used to long connections through distant hubs, a direct West African pairing like this one is a straightforward, same-day trip.

Great-circle distance Accra–Dakar is about 2,149 km, computed from the stored coordinates of ACC (5.61, -0.17) and Dakar (14.74, -17.49, which mark the city rather than Blaise Diagne airport itself). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 2,149 km against a scheduled 2.8-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches ACC–DSS. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier operates ACC–DSS: Air Senegal (HC), a full-service airline based in Senegal, outside the global alliances, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. We estimate about 7 weekly departures on the corridor, with a scheduled block time near 2.8 hours.

Air Senegal operates Accra–Dakar. As the single carrier on the route it sets the schedule and the cabin; the practical points are the departure days and the baggage allowance, which matters to traders and to anyone travelling with goods. Booking directly into Air Senegal’s schedule keeps a same-day regional trip simple, and for onward travel from Dakar, building any connection into one ticket eases the baggage and transit.

Air Senegal bases its operation at Dakar (DSS), which is where the corridor’s recovery capacity sits. A hub carrier at the disrupted end has spare aircraft, spare crew and a connecting bank to reflow you through; the same airline at its outstation end usually has one aircraft a day and no local engineering. If the schedule matters, the direction you fly changes your odds.

USD fares — ACC-DSS

$1,049 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for ACC–DSS on EK, for a 2026-10-27T14:00:00Z departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for ACC–DSS on that date.

With a roughly daily schedule and a single operator, ACC-DSS fares are steadier than on the long-haul routes, though they firm up around regional holidays and business-travel peaks. A three-to-six-week booking window usually lands a reasonable USD fare, and mid-week departures tend to be easier than weekends. For a short regional route, flexibility on the day of travel is the simplest lever on price.

Across the 1 departure month our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on ACC–DSS was $515 for a Nov 2026 departure and the dearest was $515 for Nov 2026 — a spread of $0 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

ACC–DSS fare history — 2026-W20 to 2026-W29

5 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached ACC–DSS low between $983 and $1,074 — a $91 spread, 9% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W24; the last reading in this table, 2026-W29, was $1,046. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low was effectively flat end to end — $1,042 at the start of the window against $1,046 at the end. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 5 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $983 was achievable on ACC–DSS inside the window, so a quote well above $1,074 is worth a second search.

Each row is a single weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, taken on one day, not an average of everything sold that week. Two consequences follow. A one-week dip can be a single small fare bucket rather than a trend, and a gap between weeks means we did not sample, not that fares vanished.

Is the cheap ACC–DSS itinerary really nonstop?

2.8 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on ACC–DSS; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.

The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On ACC–DSS the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 2.8-hour block time before you compare prices.

The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Dakar are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.

Search live fares

7 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live ACC–DSS search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $1,049. Scheduled nonstop block time is 2.8 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Three checks make a live ACC–DSS result comparable. Fix the passenger count and cabin first, because a per-passenger fare and a party total look identical on a results page. Then read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop itinerary and the 2.8-hour nonstop are different products at the same number. Then check whether the fare carries the bag you are actually taking.

Flexible dates are the highest-leverage setting on this corridor. Our own cache shows month-to-month movement on ACC–DSS that dwarfs the difference between booking gates, so one search across a whole month tells you more than five searches on a single date. Where the dates cannot move — a pilgrimage window, a school term, a contract start — book earlier instead of searching harder.

About Dakar

2 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Dakar (DSS), Blaise Diagne International, ICAO GOBD, from 2 catalogued origins and 2 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Dakar, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Dakar is Senegal’s capital, set on the Cap-Vert peninsula — the westernmost point of mainland Africa. It is a busy port and commercial centre with a lively arts and music scene and a strong regional role in business and culture. For travellers from Accra it is a practical regional destination: close enough for a short trip, distinct enough in language and rhythm to feel like real travel. The city also serves as a connecting point for routes onward across West Africa and beyond.

Beyond ACC, our catalogue reaches Dakar from 1 other origin: Casablanca (CMN). That matters when the ACC–DSS fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Accra to Dakar? Direct ACC-DSS flights are operated by Air Senegal. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the ACC-DSS flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 2.8 hours. The ACC-DSS route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a ACC-DSS flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $500-1,500 USD (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare); the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on ACC-DSS? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Dakar? Dakar uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

• Accra airport (ACC) — Kotoka International, Ghana: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.
• Dakar airport (DSS) — Blaise Diagne International, Senegal: 4 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the ACC–DSS fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Dakar is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.