Route brief · LON → ZNZ
London → Zanzibar
$661
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $945 · difference $284
Nov 27 – Dec 5 · 8 nights
AL2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $934–$979
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for LON → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $661 and peak in August near $1,090 — a $429 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under AL, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $661 for 7,423 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 5th — 38% above the $480 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $702.
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 Aug 8 — $933 then versus $966 now, across 7 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 $751, on Sep 1.
- Tue, Sep 1$751
- Sat, Sep 5$934
- Sat, Oct 17$982
- Fri, Oct 23$925
- Mon, Nov 16$979
- Tue, Nov 17$962
- Fri, Nov 20$970
- Tue, Nov 24$1,014
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 Nov · around $661
30% below the $945 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,423 km each way
- Typical price
- $945 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AL
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
LON → ZNZ, answered.
Is $661 a good price for London to Zanzibar?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $945 round-trip. At $661 you're 30% below that, saving about $284, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Zanzibar?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 LON → 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 9 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AL. 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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