Getting to Swakopmund
40 min from Walvis Bay on the C34, 33 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 Walvis Bay to Swakopmund
33 km · 40 min · tar all the way
the C34
N$650
per vehicle
From Windhoek to Swakopmund
356 km · 3h 54m · tar all the way
the B1, then the B2, via Okahandja, Karibib and Usakos
N$3,800
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,050 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Swakopmund
401 km · 4h 21m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, then the B2, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Karibib and 1 more
N$4,250
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,400 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Swakopmund?
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 Swakopmund 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.