Route brief · LON → NBO
London → Nairobi
$586
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $695 · difference $109
Sep 9 – Oct 7 · 28 nights
Wizz Air UK2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $682–$721
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for LON → NBO. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb.
Fares bottom out in September around $586 and peak in December near $861 — a $275 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air UK, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $586 for 6,819 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 9th — 24% above the $473 from Singapore. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $661.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $702 then versus $747 now, across 7 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 $586, on Sep 9.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 93 days priced, from 41 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $586
16% below the $695 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Nairobi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,819 km each way
- Typical price
- $695 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air UK
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
LON → NBO, answered.
Is $586 a good price for London to Nairobi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $695 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $109. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Nairobi?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Nairobi are Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air UK. 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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