Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
Zanzibar, Tanzania — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from ZNZ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Zanzibar.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 602 km | 1h 10m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,691 km | 2h 31m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 1,812 km | 2h 40m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,502 km | 3h 32m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,541 km | 3h 35m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,736 km | 3h 49m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 3,103 km | 4h 16m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,560 km | 4h 51m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,745 km | 5h 04m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,749 km | 5h 05m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Tanzania
Questions about ZNZ
What is the airport code for Zanzibar?
Abeid Amani Karume International Airport uses the IATA code ZNZ and the ICAO code HTZA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Abeid Amani Karume International Airport?
It sits at 6.2220° S, 39.2249° E, serving Zanzibar in Tanzania, at an elevation of 54 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
