Route brief · LAX → NBO
Los Angeles → Nairobi
$1,332
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jul 15 '27 – Jul 24 '27 · 9 nights
RwandAir2 stops
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 2 stops and takes about 23 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under RwandAir, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,332 for 15,543 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 6th — 2.7× the $488 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $804. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~23 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~15,543 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- RwandAir
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under RwandAir. 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 August 18). 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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