Flights Entebbe -> Nairobi (EBB-NBO) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
21 scheduled departures a week link Entebbe (EBB) in Uganda with Nairobi (NBO) — about 3 a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours.
Entebbe to Nairobi is one of the busiest short-haul links in East Africa, connecting Uganda with Kenya, with around 21 flights a week — three a day. The route carries business travellers, traders, tourists and connecting passengers. Block time is a little over an hour.
Great-circle distance Entebbe–Nairobi is about 521 km, computed from the stored coordinates of EBB (0.04, 32.44) and NBO (-1.32, 36.93). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 521 km against a scheduled 1.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches EBB–NBO. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.
Airlines on this route
2 carriers operate EBB–NBO: Kenya Airways (KQ) and RwandAir (WB). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; Kenya Airways sits in SkyTeam while our table puts RwandAir outside a global alliance. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.
Two carriers fly EBB-NBO: Kenya Airways and RwandAir, both flying the short regional sector direct. With several flights a day between them, the route is built for flexibility — a missed flight rarely means a long wait.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Airways (KQ) | 23 kg | SkyTeam |
| RwandAir (WB) | 23 kg | none |
USD fares — EBB-NBO
$335 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for EBB–NBO on ET, for a 2026-08-24T12:10:00+03:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for EBB–NBO on that date.
As a short, high-frequency regional route, EBB-NBO is competitively priced. Fares rise around the December holidays. One to three weeks of lead time usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.
Across the 3 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on EBB–NBO was $174 for a Aug 2026 departure and the dearest was $184 for Dec 2026 — a spread of $10 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.
| Departure month | Cheapest one-way seen (USD) |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | $181 |
| Aug 2026 | $174 |
| Dec 2026 | $184 |
Entry rules at Nairobi (NBO)
Entry rule for Kenya, by passport: No eTA needed for most African nationals: East African Partner States (Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda) up to 180 days; South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mauritius and others up to 90 days; Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Angola and others up to 60 days. Nationalities not on these lists need an eTA. Fee No eTA fee for exempt nationalities; check the eTA portal for others; maximum stay 180, 90 or 60 days depending on nationality (see the official list). That row names the passports it covers; for any other passport, check the linked government portal before booking.
| Entry type | Fee | Maximum stay | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|
| No eTA needed for most African nationals: East African Partner States (Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda) up to 180 days; South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mauritius and others up to 90 days; Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Angola and others up to 60 days. Nationalities not on these lists need an eTA | No eTA fee for exempt nationalities; check the eTA portal for others | 180, 90 or 60 days depending on nationality (see the official list) | Kenya official source |
Worth knowing before you book: Exemption lists published on Kenya’s official eTA portal.
Read the row above against your own passport. It names the nationalities it covers, and an ECOWAS, EAC or Maghreb passport not named there can face a different fee, a different processing route or no eligibility at all for the same destination. Entry rules change without notice, so the linked government portal is the authority, not this table.
Checked baggage and uplift on EBB–NBO — and what is not covered
23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on EBB–NBO, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +5 kg on Kenya Airways. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.
A baggage baseline is the economy checked allowance an airline advertises as standard. It is not what your ticket necessarily grants. The same airline sells fare families below the baseline — hand-baggage-only and basic-economy buckets are exactly the ones that surface as the cheapest EBB–NBO quote in any fare cache, including ours. The allowance printed on your itinerary overrides any table, ours included.
Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +5 kg on Kenya Airways — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.
Search live fares
21 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live EBB–NBO search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $335. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Three checks make a live EBB–NBO result comparable. Fix the passenger count and cabin first, because a per-passenger fare and a party total look identical on a results page. Then read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop itinerary and the 1.5-hour nonstop are different products at the same number. Then check whether the fare carries the bag you are actually taking.
Date flexibility beats every other lever on EBB–NBO. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.
About Nairobi
6 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Nairobi (NBO), Jomo Kenyatta International, ICAO HKJK, from 6 catalogued origins and 5 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Nairobi, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.
Nairobi is the capital of Kenya and one of the main economic and transport centres of East Africa. For travellers from Entebbe it is a business and trade destination and a major hub for onward connections across the continent.
Beyond EBB, our catalogue reaches Nairobi from 5 other origins: Cairo (CAI), Dar es Salaam (DAR), Johannesburg (JNB), Kigali (KGL) and Lagos (LOS). That matters when the EBB–NBO fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.
Nairobi is a based hub for Kenya Airways. A hub airport behaves differently from an outstation: connecting banks are built around it, spare aircraft and crew sit there, and a disruption is far more likely to be recovered the same day. It also means the hub carrier usually sets the price on routes into NBO, and competitors price against it rather than the other way round.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Entebbe to Nairobi? Direct EBB-NBO flights are operated by Kenya Airways, RwandAir. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the EBB-NBO flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.5 hours. The EBB-NBO route runs roughly 21 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a EBB-NBO flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $400-900 USD (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare); the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.
What is the checked baggage allowance on EBB-NBO? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.
What currency is used in Nairobi? Nairobi uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.
Related routes and reading
- Entebbe airport (EBB) — Entebbe International, Uganda: 6 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
- Nairobi airport (NBO) — Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya: 19 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.
The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the EBB–NBO fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Nairobi is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.