Getting to Walvis Bay
40 min from Swakopmund 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 Swakopmund to Walvis Bay
33 km · 40 min · tar all the way
the C34
N$650
per vehicle
From Windhoek to Walvis Bay
389 km · 4h 13m · tar all the way
the B1, B2, then the C34, via Okahandja, Karibib, Usakos and 1 more
N$4,150
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,300 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Walvis Bay
434 km · 4h 40m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, B2, then the C34, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Karibib and 2 more
N$4,600
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,700 — 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 Walvis Bay?
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 Walvis Bay 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.