Aruba vs Tanzania

Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa's yellow-lit beachfront buildings with thatched roofs and palm trees at dusk, lounge chairs on patios overlooking a grass lawn.

Thatched-roof pavilion with blue curtains surrounded by palm trees, flowering plants, and a small pool at The Palms Zanzibar.

Aruba and Tanzania, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

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By the numbers

Aruba compared with Tanzania
Aruba	Measure	Tanzania
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 3: Reconsider Travel
9	Resorts in our catalog	14
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$152–$615/night pp
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	0 of 14
Outside the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	Long rains mid-March–May (April is seriously wet), short rains November
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	June–October and December–February
Dutch & Papiamento (English universal)	Language	Swahili & English (English widely used in tourism)
Aruban florin; USD universally accepted	Currency	Tanzanian shilling (TZS); USD widely accepted
120V, Type A/B plugs (same as the US)	Power	230V, Type G (UK-style) plugs – bring an adapter
On the right	Driving	On the left
Oranjestad (AUA)	Main airport	Zanzibar / Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~16–19h+ from the US, with a connection

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country.

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Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Tanzania
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Tanzania · high °F	89	90	90	87	84	84	83	83	84	86	88	89
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Tanzania · rain (in)	3.0	2.4	5.9	15.3	7.8	1.9	1.1	1.4	2.0	3.5	8.0	5.5