Route brief · AUH → ZNZ
Abu Dhabi → Zanzibar
$404
−1% vs typical
seasonal median $410 · difference $6
Dec 27 – Jan 10 '27 · 14 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $407–$409
- Board rank
- Stronger than 0%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefZNZZanzibarStone Town’s carved doors and spice markets, then white sand on the east coast — often bolted onto a safari.Best windowJun–OctAirportsAbeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)All routes into ZanzibarWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Dec is the cheapest for AUH → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares on this route stay within about $28 across the 9 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $404 for 3,781 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 15 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi is $328.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 4 · $407 (6% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $432 then versus $430 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $337, on Oct 2.
September 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $404
1% below the $410 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,781 km each way
- Typical price
- $410 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
AUH → ZNZ, answered.
Is $404 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $410 round-trip and this fare is 1% under it, about $6. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Zanzibar are Jun–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Zanzibar?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 9 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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