Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Zanzibar to Mpanda. From €115.83, fastest 7h 46m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Zanzibar to Mpanda costs €115.83 at the cheapest and takes 7h 46m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 1,033 km. Cheapest is by Train, fastest is by Train.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 7h 58m | 7h 14m | 44m | €137.83 | 34.1 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Bagamoyo, with 103 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 8mCO2 34.6 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 7h 58mCO2 34.1 kgChanges 0Refundable
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Zanzibar to Mpanda | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €270.39 | €292.39 | €188.99 | €188.99 | €183.49 | €218.14 | €196.69 | €167.54 | €187.89 | €158.19 | €137.83 | €162.59 | €179.64 | €152.13 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €115.83
The trip ends at Mpanda Bus Station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Sort by distance from Mpanda Bus Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania Railways | €121.34 | 7h 46m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €103.49 | 89% |
| Taxes | €10.35 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 2% |
| Total you pay | €115.83 | 100% |
Check-in is at three and you will be in Mpanda well before then. Lockers are not something we run.
Stores, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Zanzibar to Mpanda takes 7h 46m door to door, of which 7h 14m is spent moving, on the Train. Most services take around 8h 15m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Zanzibar to Mpanda is €115.83, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €180.19. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Zanzibar to Mpanda is by Train, at €137.83 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 7h 58m 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.
Fares from Zanzibar to Mpanda bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €94.39. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 186 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Zanzibar to Mpanda, at €137.83. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 28, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Zanzibar to Mpanda, at €107.04 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.
1 operators sell services from Zanzibar to Mpanda across 1 modes: Tanzania Railways. 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Zanzibar to Mpanda are direct. The rest connect at Kilosa, Kibaigwa, Dodoma, Bagamoyo, with about 75 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Zanzibar to Mpanda by Train leave from Zanzibar station and arrive at Mpanda station. Allow about 44m 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.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Zanzibar to Mpanda 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.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
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, Distances
The trip is the easy half to plan. The days in Mpanda are the half people leave until last.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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