Buses in Kenya

72 routes and 0 operators Fares below are the cheapest we currently sell on each.

Nairobi skyline from Upperhill

We sell 72 Buses routes in Kenya, serving 17 places through 0 operators. 20 of those routes cross a border. The cheapest fare is None and the median route runs 325 km.

Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Buses in Kenya, in numbers

  • 72Routes we sell
  • 17Places served
  • 0Operators
  • 52Domestic routes
  • 20Cross border routes
  • 325 kmMedian route
  • 700 kmLongest route
Routes

The busiest Buses routes in Kenya

The routes we sell in Kenya, busiest first, priced over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Mombasa to Nairobi busNoneNone442 km
Nairobi to Mombasa busNoneNone442 km
Dar es Salaam to Nairobi busNoneNone673 km
Nairobi to Dar es Salaam busNoneNone673 km
Kampala to Nairobi busNoneNone503 km
Nairobi to Kampala busNoneNone503 km
Dar es Salaam to Mombasa busNoneNone311 km
Mombasa to Dar es Salaam busNoneNone311 km
Arusha to Nairobi busNoneNone232 km
Nairobi to Arusha busNoneNone232 km
Nairobi to Nakuru busNoneNone136 km
Nakuru to Nairobi busNoneNone136 km
Kisumu to Mombasa busNoneNone700 km
Mombasa to Kisumu busNoneNone700 km
Kisumu to Nairobi busNoneNone264 km
Nairobi to Kisumu busNoneNone264 km
Moshi to Nairobi busNoneNone237 km
Nairobi to Moshi busNoneNone237 km
Kitale to Nairobi busNoneNone325 km
Nairobi to Kitale busNoneNone325 km
Malindi to Nairobi busNoneNone425 km
Nairobi to Malindi busNoneNone425 km
Kilifi to Nairobi busNoneNone426 km
Nairobi to Kilifi busNoneNone426 km
Emali to Mombasa busNoneNone328 km
Mombasa to Emali busNoneNone328 km
Athi River to Nairobi busNoneNone26 km
Nairobi to Athi River busNoneNone26 km
Bungoma to Nairobi busNoneNone324 km
Nairobi to Bungoma busNoneNone324 km
Nairobi to Narok busNoneNone108 km
Narok to Nairobi busNoneNone108 km

12Go fares in Kenya

These are 12Go's own figures: the routes they sell most, and the lowest fare each is showing today.

See Mombasa to Nairobi on 12Go

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The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Nairobi is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Nairobi and across Kenya

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

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km1217%Athi River, 26 km
200 to 600 km5272%Arusha, 232 km
600 to 1,500 km811%Dar es Salaam, 673 km
Across the border

Where Kenya connects to

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Tanzania1680%
Uganda420%

Bus destinations

Common questions about Buses in Kenya

What Buses routes are there in Kenya?

We sell 72 Buses routes in Kenya, serving 17 places run by 0 operators Every one of those routes has an operator that actually serves it, so the count is the network we can sell rather than every pair of places on a map.

Can I travel out of Kenya by Buses?

20 of the Buses routes we sell touching Kenya cross a border and 52 stay inside it, reaching 2 other countries including Tanzania, Uganda. Cross border routes are usually the ones where the fare and the journey time differ most between operators.

What is the longest Buses route in Kenya?

The longest Buses route we sell touching Kenya runs from Kisumu to Mombasa, 700 km in a straight line. The median route in the country is 325 km, so this one is a considerable outlier and the fares on it behave differently from the rest.

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.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Distances

Other ways to travel here

The wider region

The bus gets you into Nairobi. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Nairobi for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Nairobi Terminus and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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