Rare1 stop · 12h
SYD to HANVietnam
Hanoi
$484
usually $885
−45%
Most monthly lows $487–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · SYD → ZNZ
Sydney to Zanzibar
Best fare, round trip
$1,572
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sat 27 Feb
- Return
- Sun 7 Mar
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 3 stops · 21.5h
- Airline
Singapore Airlines
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 3 stops and takes about 21.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Singapore Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,572 for 11,614 km each way, that works out to about $68 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Zanzibar, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $872 we hold from Manila. For context, the middle fare among the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney is $1,368. We have 3 months 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.
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
- Flight time
- ≈21.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,614 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Singapore Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct
Good to know
SYD → ZNZ, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Sydney to Zanzibar?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Singapore Airlines. 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 17 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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