St. Lucia vs Tanzania

Private villa courtyard at Serenity at Coconut Bay with turquoise plunge pool, loungers, and pink cottage beyond palm trees.

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

St. Lucia 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.

St. Lucia guide · Tanzania guide · How we score

By the numbers

St. Lucia compared with Tanzania
St. Lucia	Measure	Tanzania
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 3: Reconsider Travel
14	Resorts in our catalog	14
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$89–$810/night pp	Nightly rates	$152–$615/night pp
7 of 14	Adults-only resorts	0 of 14
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
June–November, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	Long rains mid-March–May (April is seriously wet), short rains November
December–April	Sweet spot	June–October and December–February
English	Language	Swahili & English (English widely used in tourism)
East Caribbean dollar; USD widely accepted	Currency	Tanzanian shilling (TZS); USD widely accepted
240V, UK-style Type G plugs	Power	230V, Type G (UK-style) plugs – bring an adapter
On the left	Driving	On the left
Hewanorra (UVF)	Main airport	Zanzibar / Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ)
~4.5–5h 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.

On the map

St. Lucia

Tanzania

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for St. Lucia and Tanzania
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
St. Lucia · high °F	84	84	85	87	88	88	88	88	88	87	86	84
Tanzania · high °F	89	90	90	87	84	84	83	83	84	86	88	89
St. Lucia · rain (in)	3.7	2.6	2.4	3.4	4.4	7.5	8.1	8.9	8.4	9.2	7.7	5.2
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

Approximate climate normals for Northwest coast (Rodney Bay–Soufrière) and Zanzibar: planning guidance, not a forecast. Deeper gold = hotter; deeper teal = wetter.