ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
SFO to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$61
usually $155
−61%
Most monthly lows $130–$295. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · SFO → ZNZ
San Francisco to Zanzibar
Best fare, round trip
$1,735
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sat 7 Nov
- Return
- Sat 21 Nov
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 21h
- Airline
Qatar Airways
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TanzaniaZanzibarStone 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)Every route into ZanzibarFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,735 for 16,039 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 6th — 31% above the $1,324 from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $1,112. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Zanzibar: Jun–Oct.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 62% higher than when tracking began on 1 Sep — $1,068 then versus $1,735 now, across 3 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 $1,068, on 24 Sep.
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.
Cached fares · checked 10 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ≈21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈16,039 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
Good to know
SF → ZNZ, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 10 October). 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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