Sambava to Antananarivo runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:13 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €53.24 and €74.48, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 20m over 605 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€53.24 to €74.48
- 166%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Sambava
No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.
- 06:13First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 4Services per day
- 50%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €144.69Wed16
- about €122.86Thu17
- about €127.58Fri18
- about €103.39Sat19
- about €99.26Sun20
- about €95.72Mon21
- about €90.41Tue22
- about €90.41Wed23
- about €106.34Thu24
- about €76.84Fri25
- about €80.38Sat26
- about €78.02Sun27
- about €75.07Mon28
- about €74.48Tue29
- about €65.63Wed30
- about €67.40Thu1
- about €72.12Fri2
- about €66.22Sat3
- about €59.14Sun4
- about €53.24Mon5
- about €54.42Tue6
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The flight gets you into Antananarivo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Antananarivo for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Sambava to Antananarivo
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €67.4090 days
- €57.9660 days
- €70.9445 days
- €70.9430 days
- €54.4221 days
- €74.4814 days
- €90.417 days
- €127.583 days
- €144.691 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €54.42.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 166 percent. The dearest point is €144.69, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Sambava to Antananarivo and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
605 km
588 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.
Who lives at each end
89,003 → 1,349,501
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
Observed
Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.
The route
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 605 km against 588 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Antsiranana, Maroantsetra. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
Antananarivo is large, and the road in from TNR can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Antananarivo
Settled in advance, so the ride into Antananarivo costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Soarano station
Most of the points near Soarano station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Sambava to Antananarivo
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from Sambava to Antananarivo?
The fastest journey from Sambava to Antananarivo takes 4h 20m door to door, of which 1h 13m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 24m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from Sambava to Antananarivo?
The cheapest fare from Sambava to Antananarivo is €53.24, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €85.99. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Sambava to Antananarivo?
The cheapest way from Sambava to Antananarivo is by flight, at €74.48 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 4h 23m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
When should I book Sambava to Antananarivo?
Fares from Sambava to Antananarivo bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €54.42. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 166 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Sambava to Antananarivo?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Sambava to Antananarivo, at €74.48. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 15 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Sambava to Antananarivo?
February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Sambava to Antananarivo, at €44.39 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs services from Sambava to Antananarivo?
2 operators sell services from Sambava to Antananarivo across 1 mode: Air Madagascar, Tsaradia. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Sambava to Antananarivo?
50 percent of the services we sell from Sambava to Antananarivo are direct. The rest connect at Antsiranana, Maroantsetra, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Sambava to Antananarivo use?
Services from Sambava to Antananarivo by flight leave from Sambava SVB and arrive at Antananarivo TNR. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Sambava to Antananarivo?
0 of the 2 operators we sell from Sambava to Antananarivo allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Sambava to Antananarivo on 15 September 2026: 605 km of route against 588 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €53.24, and 4h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives Antananarivo a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Antananarivo and across Madagascar
Day trips that leave Antananarivo in the morning and cover a good part of Madagascar by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Sambava reaches 3 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 138 to 588 km. Antananarivo reaches 21 places in 10 countries, from 214 to 8,760 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Sambava
- 3Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 2Operators
Arriving in Antananarivo
Leaving Antananarivo
- 21Places you can leave for
- 10Countries
- 10Operators