Ferry tickets to Zanzibar

4 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

On a walk around Stone Town, Zanzibar. A recently revitalized stone gazebo in Forodhani Gardens

4 places connect to Zanzibar by Ferries, across 1 country, run by 0 operators. The cheapest arrival costs None. Origins run from 74 km away to 122 km, with a median of 98 km.

Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Zanzibar

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Zanzibar, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Tanga to Zanzibar ferryNoneNone122 km
Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar ferryNoneNone74 km
  • 4Places you can arrive from
  • 1Countries
  • 0Operators

12Go fares to Zanzibar

These are 12Go's own figures: the routes they sell most, and the lowest fare each is showing today.

See Tanga to Zanzibar on 12Go

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The ferry gets you into Zanzibar. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Zanzibar for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from KITUONI and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km4100%Dar es Salaam, 74 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Tanzania4100%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Ferry
  • ZANZIBAR
Leaving

Leaving Zanzibar

Common questions about Ferry tickets to Zanzibar

Where can I travel to Zanzibar by Ferries from?

4 places connect to Zanzibar by Ferries on our network, across 1 country The nearest is 74 km away in a straight line and the furthest 122 km.

Which terminal does the Ferries to Zanzibar use?

Ferries services into Zanzibar use 1 named terminals, among them ZANZIBAR. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door

Other ways to reach Zanzibar

The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near KITUONI

Most of the points near KITUONI open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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