Kigali to Mombasa flight

Flights from Kigali to Mombasa start at €126.99 and take 5h at their fastest.

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The Flights from Kigali to Mombasa starts at €126.99 and takes 5h door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,125 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 5hDoor to door
  • 1h 50mMoving
  • €126.99From
  • 276.8 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€95.72
  1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KL526807:301h 29m08:59Kigali KGLArusha ARK
  2. Ethiopian Airlines EA809210:0454m10:58Arusha JROMombasa MBA

Changes at Arusha, with 65 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 38mCO2 276.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€132.30
  1. Rwandair Express RE604106:481h 50m08:38Kigali KGLMombasa MBA

Door to door 5hCO2 276.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€147.64
  1. Kenya Airways KA716407:301h 24m08:54Kigali KGLNairobi NBO
  2. Kenya Railways KR294210:373h 18m13:55Nairobi TerminusMombasa Terminus

Changes at Nairobi, with 103 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 8h 22mCO2 205.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, 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
Rwandair Express€115.785h740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Rwandair Express

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Rooms within reach of Mombasa Terminus

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Booking window

When to book Kigali to Mombasa

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

  1. €120.5090 days
  2. €91.0060 days
  3. €93.3645 days
  4. €82.1530 days
  5. €130.5321 days
  6. €173.6014 days
  7. €173.017 days
  8. €189.533 days
  9. €239.091 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €82.15.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 191 percent. The most expensive point is €239.09, 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.
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. €157.67Sun
  2. €137.61Mon
  3. €126.99Tue
  4. €131.71Wed
  5. €165.34Thu
  6. €165.93Fri
  7. €173.01Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Kigali

Air
  • KGL

Mombasa

Air
  • MBA
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,125 km against 1,092 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 Arusha, Nairobi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Kigali at 06:48 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Kigali to Mombasa

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 Kigali to Mombasa take?

The Flight from Kigali to Mombasa takes 5h door to door, of which 1h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 1,125 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 Kigali to Mombasa cost?

The Flight from Kigali to Mombasa starts at €126.99 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €132.30. 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 Kigali to Mombasa?

1 operators run the Flight from Kigali to Mombasa: Rwandair Express. Between them they file around 3 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 Kigali to Mombasa use?

The Flight from Kigali to Mombasa leaves from Kigali KGL and arrives at Mombasa MBA. 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 Kigali to Mombasa?

Fares for the Flight from Kigali to Mombasa bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €82.15. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 191 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Kigali to Mombasa produce?

The Flight from Kigali to Mombasa produces about 276.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1125 km, which works out at roughly 246 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 Kigali to Mombasa on September 12, 2026: 1125 km of route against 1092 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €126.99, and 5h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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