Route brief · ROM → ZNZ
Rome → Zanzibar
$706
−25% vs typical
seasonal median $940 · difference $234
Feb 13 '27 – Feb 20 '27 · 7 nights
Air Cairo1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $836–$1,000
- Board rank
- Stronger than 69%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Feb is the cheapest for ROM → ZNZ. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $706 and peak in August near $1,053 — a $347 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Cairo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $706 for 5,991 km each way, that works out to about $59 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 7th — 47% above the $480 from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome is $640.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $876 then versus $839 now, across 5 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 $744, on Nov 1.
- Mon, Oct 12$1,002
- Tue, Oct 13$879
- Sun, Nov 1$744
- Sun, Nov 8$755
- Fri, Nov 20$839
- Mon, Nov 23$915
- Thu, Nov 26$806
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 Feb · around $706
25% below the $940 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Zanzibar · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,991 km each way
- Typical price
- $940 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Cairo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
ROM → ZNZ, answered.
Is $706 a good price for Rome to Zanzibar?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $940 round-trip. At $706 you're 25% below that, saving about $234, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Rome to Zanzibar?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 ROM → 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 6 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Cairo. 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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