Nairobi skyline from Upperhill

Bujumbura to Nairobi

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Bujumbura to Nairobi. From €73.30, fastest 4h 43m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Bujumbura to Nairobi runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:25 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €73.30 and €83.33, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 43m over 886 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for October 6, 2026

€73.30 to €83.33

  • 214%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Bujumbura

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.

  • 06:25First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 50%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €243.22Fri18
  2. about €167.70Sat19
  3. about €174.78Sun20
  4. about €115.78Mon21
  5. about €113.42Tue22
  6. about €144.10Wed23
  7. about €195.43Thu24
  8. about €113.42Fri25
  9. about €126.99Sat26
  10. about €125.81Sun27
  11. about €91.00Mon28
  12. about €109.29Tue29
  13. about €105.16Wed30
  14. about €129.35Thu1
  15. about €97.49Fri2
  16. about €101.03Sat3
  17. about €96.31Sun4
  18. about €89.23Mon5
  19. about €73.30Tue6
  20. about €74.48Wed7
  21. about €105.16Thu8

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 Nairobi. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Nairobi for the night the flight 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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Booking window

When to book Bujumbura to Nairobi

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

  1. €106.9390 days
  2. €77.4360 days
  3. €82.7445 days
  4. €91.5930 days
  5. €105.1621 days
  6. €129.3514 days
  7. €195.437 days
  8. €174.783 days
  9. €243.221 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €77.43.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 214 percent. The most expensive point is €243.22, 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.
€243.22€77.43137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Bujumbura to Nairobi 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

886 km

860 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

769,3174,397,073

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

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

BujumburaBujumburaNairobiNairobi
The journey

What the journey looks like

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

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 886 km against 860 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 Entebbe, Kigali. The gap between arriving and leaving is 78 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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.

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

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Nairobi

Settled in advance, so the ride into Nairobi costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand 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

Baggage storage near Nairobi Terminus

Most of the points near Nairobi Terminus open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Bujumbura 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 it take to get from Bujumbura to Nairobi?

The fastest journey from Bujumbura to Nairobi takes 4h 43m door to door, of which 1h 35m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 46m, 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 Bujumbura to Nairobi?

The cheapest fare from Bujumbura to Nairobi is €73.30, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €125.52. 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 Bujumbura to Nairobi?

The cheapest way from Bujumbura to Nairobi is by flight, at €73.30 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 4h 45m 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 Bujumbura to Nairobi?

Fares from Bujumbura to Nairobi bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €77.43. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 214 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Bujumbura to Nairobi?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Bujumbura to Nairobi, at €91.00. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 17, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Bujumbura to Nairobi?

December is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Bujumbura to Nairobi, at €75.66 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 service from Bujumbura to Nairobi?

No operator record names Bujumbura to Nairobi directly. Brussels Airlines, Kenya Airways publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Bujumbura to Nairobi?

50 percent of the services we sell from Bujumbura to Nairobi are direct. The rest connect at Entebbe, Kigali, with about 78 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 Bujumbura to Nairobi use?

Services from Bujumbura to Nairobi by flight leave from Bujumbura BJM and arrive at Nairobi NBO. 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 Bujumbura to Nairobi?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from Bujumbura to Nairobi 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.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

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 Bujumbura to Nairobi on September 17, 2026: 886 km of route against 860 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €73.30, and 4h 43m 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 Nairobi is somebody else's catalog.

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The two ends, compared

Bujumbura reaches 5 places in 5 countries on services we hold, over distances from 177 to 6,483 km. Nairobi reaches 84 places in 48 countries, from 51 to 14,445 km.

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Arriving in Nairobi

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