Route brief · NYC → ZNZ
New York → Zanzibar
$784
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $1,115 · difference $331
Dec 13 – Dec 16 · 3 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,111–$1,252
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Dec is the cheapest for NYC → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $784 and peak in February near $1,271 — a $487 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $784 for 12,402 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Of the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this is the cheapest right now — 33% under the next one, Boston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of New York, where the middle fare is $784.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,490 then versus $1,150 now, across 4 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 $1,148, on Oct 31.
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 Dec · around $784
30% below the $1,115 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,402 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,115 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
NYC → ZNZ, answered.
Is $784 a good price for New York to Zanzibar?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,115 round-trip. At $784 you're 30% below that, saving about $331, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to Zanzibar?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 NYC → 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 5 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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