Stone Town
The original spice island still cooks like one: Zanzibari biryanis and pilaus heavy with clove and cardamom, urojo soup at hole-in-the-wall counters and octopus curry that converts sceptics.
- Best forTropical
- Approx. flying time~19h 50m from Los Angeles
- Nearest airportZanzibar (ZNZ)
About this place
A spice-farm tour makes sense of it all in an afternoon. At the Forodhani Gardens night market, stick to the stalls busy with locals and the freshly squeezed sugar-cane juice — and treat glistening piles of pre-cooked seafood with polite suspicion.
Featured in Ten tropical escapes where the food is half the point
When to go
Daytime highs run from about 28°C in July to 31°C in February. Driest in July and September; wettest in April, with rain on about 27 days. The sea is warmest in March at around 30°C, coolest at 26°C.
The year at a glance — pick a month for detail
August28° · rain 10 days · sea 26°Warm with rain most weeks.
Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis). Live conditions from MET Norway, CC BY 4.0.
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Flights
Los Angeles Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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