Route brief · ROM → NBO
Rome → Nairobi
$535
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $595 · difference $60
Feb 6 '27 – Feb 13 '27 · 7 nights
Air Cairo1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $575–$597
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- 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, Feb is the cheapest for ROM → NBO. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb.
Fares bottom out in February around $535 and peak in January near $618 — a $83 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Cairo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $535 for 5,388 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 4th — 58% above the $339 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $535.
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Cheapest in Feb · around $535
10% below the $595 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Nairobi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,388 km each way
- Typical price
- $595 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Cairo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
ROM → NBO, answered.
Is $535 a good price for Rome to Nairobi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $595 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $60. 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 Rome to Nairobi?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 ROM → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Cairo. 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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