Route brief · DXB → ZNZ
Dubai → Zanzibar
$455
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $545 · difference $90
Oct 10 – Oct 18 · 8 nights
Oman Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $523–$552
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for DXB → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $455 and peak in May near $618 — a $163 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Oman Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $455 for 3,897 km each way, that works out to about $58 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai is $284.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 16 · $453 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $578 then versus $544 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 $449, on Aug 18.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $455
17% below the $545 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,897 km each way
- Typical price
- $545 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Oman Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
DXB → ZNZ, answered.
Is $455 a good price for Dubai to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $545 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $90. 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 Dubai to Zanzibar?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 DXB → 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 10 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dubai to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Oman Air. 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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