Route brief · MAD → ZNZ
Madrid → Zanzibar
$1,018
−3% vs typical
seasonal median $1,050 · difference $32
Mar 16 '27 – Mar 30 '27 · 14 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,025–$1,050
- Board rank
- Stronger than 2%
- 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, Mar is the cheapest for MAD → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares on this route stay within about $103 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,018 for 6,782 km each way, that works out to about $75 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 20th — 2.1× the $480 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $695.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $896 then versus $776 now, across 9 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 $769, on Nov 9.
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 Mar · around $1,018
3% below the $1,050 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,782 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,050 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
MAD → ZNZ, answered.
Is $1,018 a good price for Madrid to Zanzibar?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,050 round-trip and this fare is 3% under it, about $32. 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 Madrid to Zanzibar?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 MAD → 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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