Route brief · PAR → NBO
Paris → Nairobi
$561
−29% vs typical
seasonal median $790 · difference $229
Sep 7 – Sep 21 · 14 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $631–$790
- Board rank
- Stronger than 77%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for PAR → NBO. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb.
Fares bottom out in September around $561 and peak in January near $946 — a $385 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $561 for 6,483 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 7th — 19% above the $473 from Singapore. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris, where the middle fare is $703.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $748 then versus $666 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 $559, on Sep 1.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $561
29% below the $790 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Nairobi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,483 km each way
- Typical price
- $790 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
PAR → NBO, answered.
Is $561 a good price for Paris to Nairobi?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $790 round-trip. At $561 you're 29% below that, saving about $229, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Paris to Nairobi?
Across 4 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 PAR → 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 4 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 Paris to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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