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title: "Flights to Nairobi: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Nairobi, Kenya, from 5 cities — 602 km at the nearest, 6,841 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/nairobi
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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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-znz)     | ZNZ | 602 km   | 1h 15m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Addis Ababa](https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-add)  | ADD | 1,164 km | 1h 57m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Johannesburg](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-nbo) | JNB | 2,912 km | 4h 07m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-nbo)        | DXB | 3,559 km | 4h 55m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-nbo)       | 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.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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