Getting to Lüderitz
8h 41m from Windhoek on the B1, then the B4, 835 km, all of it tarred. Every price below buys the whole vehicle rather than a seat, and is fixed before you book — the return is priced beside it, because the two directions are rarely the same number.
What it costs to get here
Priced from each place a trip realistically starts. Nearest first.
From Windhoek to Lüderitz
835 km · 8h 41m · tar all the way
the B1, then the B4, via Rehoboth, Mariental, Keetmanshoop and 1 more
N$11,650
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$7,550 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Lüderitz
880 km · 9h 8m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, then the B4, via Windhoek, Rehoboth, Mariental and 2 more
N$12,200
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$7,900 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Lüderitz
815 km · 12h 12m · 690 km gravel
the C14, C19, C14 / C27, C14, then the B4, via Solitaire, Sossusvlei, Helmeringhausen and 1 more
N$15,550
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$11,850 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Lüderitz
1191 km · 12h 15m · tar all the way
the B2, B1, then the B4, via Usakos, Karibib, Okahandja and 5 more
N$16,900
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$12,900 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Lüderitz?
Most people are going to a property rather than to the town, and the last stretch is often gravel that no map app times properly. The prices above are to Lüderitz itself. Send us the lodge and we price the door, not the nearest signpost — we would rather ask than publish a guess at somebody else’s driveway.
Where people go next
Each of these is a drive we have measured, with the roads, the surface and the time on it.
There is gravel on the way in. Whether to drive it yourself is a real question here, and the honest answer depends on the excess on your hire agreement rather than on the road.