ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
LAX to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$38
usually $125
−70%
Most monthly lows $67–$247. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · LAX → NBO
Los Angeles to Nairobi
Best fare, round trip
$1,709
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 13 Dec
- Return
- Sun 27 Dec
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 19.5h
- Airline
British Airways
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
KenyaNairobiA capital with a national park on its doorstep, and the standard first stop before the Mara.Best windowJun–Oct · Jan–FebAirportsJomo Kenyatta (NBO)Every route into NairobiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under British Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,709 for 15,543 km each way, that works out to about $55 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 9th — 2.9× the $593 we hold from Houston. For context, the middle fare among the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $925. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Nairobi: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 82% higher than when tracking began on 9 Aug — $1,229 then versus $2,238 now, across 5 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 $607, on 7 Dec.
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.
Cached fares · checked 11 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ≈19.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈15,543 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- British Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
Good to know
LA → NBO, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under British Airways. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 12 October). 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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