Cheapest€165.93
- Ethiopian Airlines EA924106:212h 55m09:16Addis Ababa ADDZanzibar ZNZ
Door to door 6h 5mCO2 428.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Addis Ababa to Zanzibar flight
Flights from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar start at €168.29 and take 6h 5m at their fastest.
The Flights from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar starts at €168.29 and takes 6h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,740 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 6h 5mDoor to door
- 2h 55mMoving
- €168.29From
- 428.0 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Lowest CO2€210.18
- Ethiopian Airlines EA557307:302h 17m09:47Addis Ababa ADDArusha JRO
- Tanzania Railways TR234511:193h 19m14:38Arusha Central Train StationZanzibar station
Changes at Arusha, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 9h 5mCO2 367.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ethiopian Airlines | €165.93 | 5h 49m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The trip ends at KITUONI. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Where to stay in Zanzibar
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When to book Addis Ababa to Zanzibar
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €218.4490 days
- €154.7260 days
- €132.3045 days
- €129.3530 days
- €199.5621 days
- €168.2914 days
- €201.337 days
- €220.213 days
- €288.651 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €129.35.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 123 percent. The most expensive point is €288.65, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €199.56Sun
- €173.60Mon
- €179.50Tue
- €220.21Wed
- €259.15Thu
- €218.44Fri
- €229.06Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Addis Ababa
Air
- ADD
Zanzibar
Air
- ZNZ
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
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 1,740 km against 1,690 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 Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Arusha, Nairobi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Addis Ababa at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Addis Ababa to Zanzibar
The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar take?
The Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar takes 6h 5m door to door, of which 2h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 1,740 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar cost?
The Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar starts at €168.29 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €184.22. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar?
1 operators run the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar: Ethiopian Airlines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar use?
The Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar leaves from Addis Ababa ADD and arrives at Zanzibar ZNZ. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar?
Fares for the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €129.35. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 123 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar produce?
The Flight from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar produces about 428.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1740 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Addis Ababa to Zanzibar on September 13, 2026: 1740 km of route against 1690 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €168.29, and 6h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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Landing at ZNZ after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.
Getting from ZNZ into Zanzibar
Settled in advance, so the ride into Zanzibar costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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