Which airport do you fly into for Nairobi?

Jomo Kenyatta (NBO) is the airport serving Nairobi.

How far is Nairobi from Zanzibar?

602 km (374 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 15m in the air.

Nairobi is in Kenya, in Africa, at 1.3°S — the southern hemisphere.

Kenya · Africa

Flights to Nairobi: how far it is, and from where

Nairobi sits at 1.3°S, 36.9°E, served by Jomo Kenyatta (NBO). Below are 5 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here: 5; in the catalogue
Nearest: 602 km; from Zanzibar
Furthest: 6,841 km; from London
Airports: 1; NBO

How far Nairobi is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

From		Distance	Estimated	Direction
Zanzibar	ZNZ	602 km	1h 15m	barely any time shift
Addis Ababa	ADD	1,164 km	1h 57m	barely any time shift
Johannesburg	JNB	2,912 km	4h 07m	barely any time shift
Dubai	DXB	3,559 km	4h 55m	westbound — the easier direction
London	LHR	6,841 km	9h 00m	eastbound — the harder direction

What Nairobi adds to a map

Nairobi puts a pin in Kenya, and Africa is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from London, is 6,841 km: 17.1% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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