Route brief · WAS → NBO
Washington → Nairobi
$578
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
May 26 '27 – Jun 29 '27 · 34 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 34-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $578 for 12,141 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 2nd — 18% above the $488 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $966. We have 2 months 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
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,141 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
WAS → NBO, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Washington to Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. 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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