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London to Kigali

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from London to Kigali. From €565.19, fastest 12h 6m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

London to Kigali runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:52 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €566.54 and €668.02, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 12h 6m over 6,788 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€566.54 to €668.02

  • 107%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving London

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:52First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 3Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €1,097.54Tue15
  2. about €1,143.56Wed16
  3. about €1,042.08Thu17
  4. about €1,044.24Fri18
  5. about €1,067.45Sat19
  6. about €1,199.89Sun20
  7. about €724.69Mon21
  8. about €668.02Tue22
  9. about €747.67Wed23
  10. about €870.44Thu24
  11. about €857.79Fri25
  12. about €862.19Sat26
  13. about €780.12Sun27
  14. about €660.34Mon28
  15. about €628.44Tue29
  16. about €633.80Wed30
  17. about €647.14Thu1
  18. about €610.84Fri2
  19. about €635.59Sat3
  20. about €565.19Sun4
  21. about €608.09Mon5

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Kigali. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Kigali for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Kigali CBD Bus Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book London to Kigali

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €601.9490 days
  2. €542.6460 days
  3. €550.8945 days
  4. €531.0930 days
  5. €608.0921 days
  6. €660.3414 days
  7. €724.697 days
  8. €1,042.083 days
  9. €1,097.541 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €531.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 107 percent. The dearest point is €1,097.54, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€1,097.54€531.091371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to London to Kigali and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

6,788 km

6,590 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

8,961,9891,132,686

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

LondonLondonKigaliKigali
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 6,788 km against 6,590 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Amsterdam, Brussels, Istanbul, Entebbe. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

Kigali is large, and the road in from KGL can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Kigali

Settled in advance, so the ride into Kigali costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Kigali CBD Bus Station

Most of the points near Kigali CBD Bus Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about London to Kigali

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from London to Kigali?

The fastest journey from London to Kigali takes 12h 6m door to door, of which 9h 17m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 12h 45m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from London to Kigali?

The cheapest fare from London to Kigali is €565.19, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €803.13. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from London to Kigali?

The cheapest way from London to Kigali is by flight, at €668.02 for one passenger on 4 October 2026. That journey takes 12h 27m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book London to Kigali?

Fares from London to Kigali bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €531.09. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 107 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for London to Kigali?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from London to Kigali, at €660.34. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 14 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for London to Kigali?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from London to Kigali, at €424.35 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from London to Kigali?

1 operators sell services from London to Kigali across 1 mode: Rwandair Express. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from London to Kigali?

20 percent of the services we sell from London to Kigali are direct. The rest connect at Amsterdam, Brussels, Istanbul, Entebbe, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from London to Kigali use?

Services from London to Kigali by flight leave from London LHR and arrive at Kigali KGL. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from London to Kigali?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from London to Kigali allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for London to Kigali on 14 September 2026: 6788 km of route against 6590 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €565.19, and 12h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Kigali is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Kigali and across Rwanda

Day trips that leave Kigali in the morning and cover a good part of Rwanda by evening.

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The two ends, compared

London reaches 520 places in 109 countries on services we hold, over distances from 17 to 11,718 km. Kigali reaches 20 places in 18 countries, from 148 to 6,590 km.

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  • 109Countries
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  • 7Operators

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