GoodNonstop · 4h
KUL to HKG
Hong Kong
$181
usually $255
−29%
Most monthly lows $189–$264. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · KUL → ZNZ
Kuala Lumpur to Zanzibar
Best fare, round trip
$1,082
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 31 Dec
- Return
- Wed 6 Jan
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 11.5h
- Airline
Batik Air Malaysia
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.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,082 for 7,015 km each way, that works out to about $77 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 25th — 1.9× the $557 we hold from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 19 routes of similar length we watch out of Kuala Lumpur is $607. We have 2 months 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Zanzibar: Jun–Oct.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% higher than when tracking began on 15 Aug — $1,008 then versus $1,121 now, across 13 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 $917, on 1 Sep.
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 17 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ≈11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,015 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Batik Air Malaysia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
Good to know
KUL → ZNZ, answered.
How far in advance should I book KUL → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia. 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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