Route brief · ZRH → NBO
Zurich → Nairobi
$601
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $640 · difference $39
Oct 12 – Oct 26 · 14 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $618–$639
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- 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, Oct is the cheapest for ZRH → NBO. Best time to be there: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb.
Fares bottom out in October around $601 and peak in August near $739 — a $138 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $601 for 6,066 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 11th — 1.8× the $339 we hold from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $635.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 16 — $702 then versus $724 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 $584, on Oct 11.
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 Oct · around $601
6% below the $640 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Nairobi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,066 km each way
- Typical price
- $640 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
ZRH → NBO, answered.
Is $601 a good price for Zurich to Nairobi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $640 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $39. 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 Zurich to Nairobi?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 ZRH → 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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich 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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