Route brief · LIS → ZNZ
Lisbon → Zanzibar
$1,012
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $1,175 · difference $163
Sep 7 – Sep 14 · 7 nights
Ryanair2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,157–$1,175
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for LIS → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $1,012 and peak in December near $1,298 — a $286 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,012 for 7,045 km each way, that works out to about $72 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 19th — 2.1× the $480 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon is $745.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,144 then versus $1,163 now, across 6 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 $972, on Oct 21.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $1,012
14% below the $1,175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,045 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
LIS → ZNZ, answered.
Is $1,012 a good price for Lisbon to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,175 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $163. 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 Lisbon to Zanzibar?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 LIS → 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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. 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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