GreatNonstop · 3h
CAN to PEKChina
Beijing
$280
usually $435
−36%
Most monthly lows $342–$579. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · CAN → ZNZ
Guangzhou to Zanzibar
Best fare, round trip
$1,003
−14%
below its usual $1,170
you keep $167
Found
- Depart
- Fri 8 Jan
- Return
- Sun 10 Jan
- Stay
- 2 nights
- Flight
- 3 stops · 14.5h
- Airline
IndiGo
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $1,006 and $1,172. The drop beats 36% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TanzaniaZanzibarStone 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)Every route into ZanzibarFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in January around $1,003 and peak in October near $1,296, 29% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip — ticketed under IndiGo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,003 for 8,667 km each way, that works out to about $58 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 19th — 1.6× the $615 we hold from Frankfurt. For context, the middle fare among the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou is $794. The best time to be in Zanzibar: Jun–Oct.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,081 then versus $1,122 now, across 17 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 $1,003, on 8 Jan '27.
- Tue 27 Oct$1,310
- Wed 28 Oct$1,332
- Thu 29 Oct$1,296
- Mon 16 Nov$1,103
- Tue 24 Nov$1,122
- Thu 26 Nov$1,006
- Fri 8 Jan$1,003lowest
- Sat 23 Jan$1,107
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $1,003
14% below the $1,170 typical fare
$1296Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$1006Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$1172Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$1003Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Guangzhou to Zanzibar, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,667 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,170 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- IndiGo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
Good to know
CAN → ZNZ, answered.
Is $1,003 a good price for Guangzhou to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,170 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it. 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 Guangzhou to Zanzibar?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 CAN → 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 4 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under IndiGo. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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