Route brief · DEL → NBO
Delhi → Nairobi
$510
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 12 – Sep 20 · 8 nights
Saudia1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefNBONairobiA capital with a national park on its doorstep, and the standard first stop before the Mara.Best windowJun–Oct · Jan–FebAirportsJomo Kenyatta (NBO)All routes into NairobiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Nairobi: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Saudia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $510 for 5,435 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 3rd — 50% above the $339 from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi is $509. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $574 then versus $602 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $404, on Sep 21.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,435 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Saudia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
DEL → NBO, answered.
How far in advance should I book DEL → Nairobi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Saudia. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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