Route brief · CHI → ZNZ
Chicago → Zanzibar
$1,423
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 25 – Oct 7 · 12 nights
Etihad1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Zanzibar: Jun–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,423 for 13,457 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $784 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $923. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
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Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~19 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,457 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
CHI → ZNZ, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago 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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