Amsterdam to Zanzibar flight

Flights from Amsterdam to Zanzibar start at €727.61 and take 13h 16m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Amsterdam to Zanzibar starts at €727.61 and takes 13h 16m door to door, run by 1 operator over 7,490 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 13h 16mDoor to door
  • 10h 6mMoving
  • €727.61From
  • 1108.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€625.54
  1. Emirates E314207:309h 19m16:49Amsterdam AMSNairobi NBO
  2. Kenya Airways KA599417:361h 16m18:52Nairobi NBOZanzibar ZNZ

Changes at Nairobi, with 47 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 32mCO2 1169.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€848.56
  1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KL709606:3110h 6m16:37Amsterdam AMSZanzibar ZNZ

Door to door 13h 16mCO2 1108.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines€651.5013h 12m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

The trip ends at KITUONI. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Zanzibar

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

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Booking window

When to book Amsterdam to Zanzibar

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €699.2990 days
  2. €535.4960 days
  3. €465.0945 days
  4. €499.8730 days
  5. €676.2921 days
  6. €893.4014 days
  7. €1,143.567 days
  8. €1,122.343 days
  9. €1,676.331 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €465.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 260 percent. The most expensive point is €1,676.33, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €788.49Sun
  2. €721.39Mon
  3. €727.61Tue
  4. €891.04Wed
  5. €907.29Thu
  6. €852.10Fri
  7. €893.40Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Amsterdam

Air
  • AMS

Zanzibar

Air
  • ZNZ
The journey

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 7,490 km against 7,272 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 Nairobi, Frankfurt am Main, Rome, Verona. 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. 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 Amsterdam at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar take?

The Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar takes 13h 16m door to door, of which 10h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 7,490 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar cost?

The Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar starts at €727.61 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €664.19. 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar?

1 operators run the Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Between them they file around 4 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar use?

The Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar leaves from Amsterdam AMS 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar?

Fares for the Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €465.09. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 260 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar produce?

The Flight from Amsterdam to Zanzibar produces about 1108.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 7490 km, which works out at roughly 148 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 Amsterdam to Zanzibar on September 12, 2026: 7490 km of route against 7272 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €727.61, and 13h 16m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Landing at ZNZ after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

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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