Route brief · AMS → ZNZ
Amsterdam → Zanzibar
$773
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $870 · difference $97
Nov 5 – Nov 19 · 14 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $859–$887
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for AMS → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $773 and peak in February near $1,092 — a $319 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $773 for 7,272 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 9th — 1.6× the $480 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam is $748.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $807 then versus $835 now, across 5 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 $491, on Aug 27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 30 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $773
11% below the $870 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,272 km each way
- Typical price
- $870 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
AMS → ZNZ, answered.
Is $773 a good price for Amsterdam to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $870 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $97. 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 AMS → 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 7 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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