--- title: "Nairobi to Addis Ababa (NBO → ADD): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Nairobi to Addis Ababa is 1,164 km (723 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 57m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map." url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-add --- NBO → ADD # Nairobi to Addis Ababa: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Jomo Kenyatta to Addis Ababa Bole is 1,164 km of great circle — 723 mi — and an estimated 1h 57m in the air. Both ends are in Africa. **Great circle** 1,164 km 723 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 57m block time **Furthest from equator** 9.0°N at 100% along **One lap of Earth** 2.9% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 243rd longest. The Nairobi to Addis Ababa route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Nairobi the path crosses Kenya, then Ethiopia. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 9.0°N, 100% of the way along. Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree. The heading barely moves: north out of Nairobi, north into Addis Ababa. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 172 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [NBO–ADD carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=NBO&to=ADD) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=NBO-ADD) From NBO ## Jomo Kenyatta Nairobi, Kenya · Africa 1.3°S, 36.9°E [NBO airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/nbo) [Flights to Nairobi →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/nairobi) To ADD ## Addis Ababa Bole Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Africa 9.0°N, 38.8°E [ADD airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/add) ## Nairobi to Addis Ababa, asked and answered **How far is Nairobi to Addis Ababa?** Nairobi to Addis Ababa (NBO to ADD) is 1,164 km, or 723 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Nairobi to Addis Ababa?** About 1h 57m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing. **What route does a Nairobi to Addis Ababa flight take?** The great circle passes over Kenya, then Ethiopia. It reaches 9.0°N at its furthest from the equator. ## Where these numbers come from Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules. [Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained) ## Flown this one? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [NBO → ZNZ Nairobi to Zanzibar 602 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-znz) [JNB → NBO Johannesburg to Nairobi 2,912 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jnb-to-nbo) [DXB → NBO Dubai to Nairobi 3,559 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-nbo) [LHR → NBO London to Nairobi 6,841 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-nbo) [SYD → ADL Sydney to Adelaide 1,164 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-adl) [SGN → HAN Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi 1,160 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sgn-to-han) ## Further reading [How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/nbo-to-add for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt