Abidjan to Nairobi flight

Flights from Abidjan to Nairobi start at €454.44 and take 10h 18m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Abidjan to Nairobi starts at €454.44 and takes 10h 18m door to door, run by 1 operator over 4,731 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 18mDoor to door
  • 7h 8mMoving
  • €454.44From
  • 700.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€374.20
  1. Kenya Airways KA740906:487h 8m13:56Abidjan ABJNairobi NBO

Door to door 10h 18mCO2 700.2 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Kenya Airways€374.209h 34m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Kenya Airways

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Booking window

When to book Abidjan to Nairobi

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

  1. €443.8290 days
  2. €311.0760 days
  3. €365.3545 days
  4. €324.6430 days
  5. €435.5621 days
  6. €566.5414 days
  7. €568.907 days
  8. €638.523 days
  9. €891.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €311.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 186 percent. The most expensive point is €891.04, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €545.89Sun
  2. €463.88Mon
  3. €454.44Tue
  4. €620.82Wed
  5. €774.81Thu
  6. €543.53Fri
  7. €566.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Abidjan

Air
  • ABJ

Nairobi

Air
  • NBO
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 4,731 km against 4,593 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 Accra, Lagos, Brazzaville, Cotonou. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Abidjan at 06:48 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Abidjan to Nairobi

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi take?

The Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi takes 10h 18m door to door, of which 7h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 4,731 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi cost?

The Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi starts at €454.44 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €487.48. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi?

1 operators run the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi: Kenya Airways. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi use?

The Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi leaves from Abidjan ABJ and arrives at Nairobi NBO. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi?

Fares for the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €311.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi produce?

The Flight from Abidjan to Nairobi produces about 700.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 4731 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Abidjan to Nairobi on September 12, 2026: 4731 km of route against 4593 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €454.44, and 10h 18m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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

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A car waiting when you land in Nairobi

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