Route brief · HOU → NBO
Houston → Nairobi
$939
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 2 – Nov 20 · 18 nights
Turkish Airlines1 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 17.5 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $939 for 14,060 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 5th — 1.9× the $488 we hold from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $1,061. We have 1 month 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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Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,060 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
HOU → NBO, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Houston to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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