Kilimanjaro National Park is the mountain and the forest around it. If you are choosing a route, a number of days or a package, start on the Kilimanjaro guide. This page is the park itself, and the trips that climb it.
- Summit
- Uhuru Peak, 5,895 m
- Managed by
- TANAPA, as Kilimanjaro National Park
- UNESCO
- World Heritage since 1987
- Nearest town
- Moshi
- Routes
- Seven, compared on the Kilimanjaro guide
- A day visit
- Possible, on the lower slopes only
The park, not the brochure
Kilimanjaro National Park protects the mountain: Kibo, the summit cone, Mawenzi, the jagged secondary peak, and Shira, the plateau to the west, plus the montane forest around them. UNESCO listed it in 1987. Uhuru Peak, on Kibo's rim, is 5,895 metres and the highest point in Africa. TANAPA runs the park. You cannot climb without their permit and a licensed guide.
Everything a climber needs to decide, the routes, the number of days, the altitude, what the fees are paying for, lives on the Kilimanjaro guide. We keep that page as the long one so this page does not compete with it using a shorter, worse version of the same facts.
What you walk through
A climb crosses farmland edge, montane forest, heath and moorland, alpine desert, and the summit zone. That sequence is why a single day cannot represent the mountain. A day hike is forest and the first camp. The arctic morning is several days later, and only if you have given the altitude the time.
Mount Meru, in Arusha National Park, is the other big walk, and a sensible rehearsal. Mkomazi is the safari that fits before or after, because it is in the same region and does not demand a week.
When to go
The drier windows are about June to October and late December to early March. The long rains around March to May, and the shorter rains in November, are muddier and quieter. The Kilimanjaro guide has the fuller month picture. The chart here is the same planning scale.
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The climbs on this site
The packages below are the Kilimanjaro trips in our list, from day hikes to full summit routes. A starting price appears only when that trip has one. Sample trips are marked. For the route narrative, open the route from the guide rather than from the package title alone.
Packages that include Kilimanjaro National Park
These are the trips in our list that spend time here. A price is the starting price of that trip. A sample trip is a plan we can run. The camps and the price are confirmed when you ask.
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1-Day Machame Route Day Hike from Moshi or Arusha1 day · from $210 -
1-Day Marangu Route Day Hike from Moshi or Arusha1 day · from $240 -
1-Day Rongai Route Hike from Moshi or Arusha1 day · from $280 -
Mt Kilimanjaro 1-Day Marangu Route – Classic Adventure Trek1 day · from $170 -
Shira Plateau Day Hike from Moshi or Arusha1 day · from $280 -
2-Day Machame Route Overnight Hike from Moshi or Arusha2 days · from $490 -
2-Day Marangu Route Hut Stay from Moshi or Arusha2 days · from $490
- 2-Day Rongai Route Hike from Moshi or Arusha2 days · from $580
- 3-Day Machame Route Trek from Moshi or Arusha3 days · from $750
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3-Day Marangu Route Horombo Hut Trek from Moshi or Arusha3 days · from $700
- 3-Day Rongai Route Hike from Moshi or Arusha3 days · from $820
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5-Day Marangu Route Kilimanjaro Climb5 days · from $1,250 -
6-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro Climb6 days · from $1,700 -
6-Day Machame Route Kilimanjaro Climb6 days · from $1,600 - 6-Day Umbwe Route Kilimanjaro Climb6 days · from $1,600
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7-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro From Arusha7 days · from $2,495 -
7-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro From Moshi7 days · from $1,900 -
7-Day Machame Route Kilimanjaro From Arusha7 days · from $1,700 -
7-Day Marangu Route Kilimanjaro Climb7 days · from $1,700 -
8-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro Climb8 days · from $2,000 - 8-Day Machame Route with Kilimanjaro Crater Camp8 days · from $3,000
Questions people ask
- On the Kilimanjaro guide. Machame, Lemosho, Marangu, Rongai, the Northern Circuit, Umbwe and Shira each have their own page, with a 3D map of that route only. This destination page lists the climb packages.
- Yes. Day hikes on the Marangu or Machame trails go to the first huts and turn around. Materuni and the other village walks are outside the park gate and do not need a full park plan. A summit attempt is a multi-day trek with a guide. The park does not allow you to walk up alone.
- The whole upper mountain and a belt of forest. TANAPA sets the rules and the fees. Moshi is the town at the southern foot. Marangu gate, Machame gate and the other trailheads are where the routes actually start.
References
The facts on this page were checked against these sources and written in our own words. Gate hours, fees and wildlife numbers change. We link the authority instead of printing a figure that will go stale.
- Our Kilimanjaro guide: routes, days and how to choose
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Kilimanjaro National Park
- Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA)
- Kilimanjaro National Park, Wikipedia
- Tanzania Tourist Board
Last reviewed 2026-10-28.
