
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
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Flights · IST → ZNZ
Best fare, round trip
$557
−25%
below its usual $740
you keep $183
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $693 and $967. The drop beats 67% of measured fares on the board, over 11 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
Fares bottom out in January around $557 and peak in August near $1,003, 80% dearer, across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Cairo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $557 for 5,348 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this is the cheapest right now — 12% under the next one, Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $502. The best time to be in Zanzibar: Jun–Oct.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 10 Jan '27, $557
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $856 then versus $790 now, across 20 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 $557, on 10 Jan '27.
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Cheapest in Jan, around $557
25% below the $740 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Zanzibar, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $740 round-trip. At $557 you're 25% below that, which we rate good for this route.
Across 11 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.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 11 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Cairo. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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