| Official Name: | Daru |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Mapsize: | 300px |
| Pushpin Map: | Papua New Guinea |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Papua New Guinea |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Western Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | South Fly District |
| Subdivision Type3: | LLG |
| Subdivision Name3: | Daru Urban |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1884 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Note: | 2011 |
| Population Total: | 15,142 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | AEST |
| Utc Offset1: | +10 |
| Coordinates: | -9.0833°N 155°W |
| Elevation M: | 3 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Am |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Location |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 440km (270miles) from Port Moresby by air |
Daru is the capital of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea[2] and a former Catholic bishopric. Daru town falls under the jurisdiction of Daru Urban LLG. The township is entirely located on an island that goes by the same name, which is located near the mouth of the Fly River on the western side of the Gulf, just north of Torres Strait and Far North Queensland in Australia. Daru had a recorded population of 15,142 as of the 2011 census.
The language of the Daru people is Kiwai (South-West Coastal Kiwai), also spoken on neighbouring mainland villages (the name Kiwai comes from Kiwai Island some 60 km north-east in the Fly River delta). However, the Kiwai settlement of Daru is fairly recent. The original inhabitants, the Hiamo, were Western-Central Torres Strait Islanders originally from Yama in the Torres Strait. With the Kiwai colonisations, the main group of Hiamo people moved to Southern Torres Strait and settled the (Inner) Muralag group.
Its St. Louis de Montfort Co-Cathedral[3] is the 'second see' (and former 'full' cathedral) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Daru-Kiunga (renamed in 1987, originally Apostolic Prefecture of Daru since 1957, promoted diocese in 1966).
It is served by Daru Airport, a small airstrip.
Daru has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) with heavy rainfall most of the year and low rainfall from July to October.