Flights Nairobi -> Entebbe (NBO-EBB) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
21 scheduled departures a week link Nairobi (NBO) in Kenya with Entebbe (EBB) — about 3 a day — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 1.2 hours.
Nairobi to Entebbe is one of the busiest short-haul links in East Africa, connecting Kenya with Uganda, 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 Nairobi–Entebbe is about 521 km, computed from the stored coordinates of NBO (-1.32, 36.93) and EBB (0.04, 32.44). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 521 km against a scheduled 1.2-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 NBO–EBB. 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
1 carrier operates NBO–EBB: Kenya Airways (KQ), a full-service airline based in Kenya, a member of SkyTeam, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. We estimate about 21 weekly departures on the corridor, with a scheduled block time near 1.2 hours.
Kenya Airways operates NBO-EBB, flying the short regional sector direct to Entebbe. Nairobi is the carrier’s main hub, so the route is also a feeder into a wide network of connections across Africa and beyond.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Airways (KQ) | 23 kg | SkyTeam |
Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +5 kg on Kenya Airways. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.
USD fares — NBO-EBB
$357 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for NBO–EBB on ET, for a 2026-08-13T03:20:00+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 NBO–EBB on that date.
As a short, high-frequency regional route, NBO-EBB 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 6 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on NBO–EBB was $180 for a Jul 2026 departure and the dearest was $205 for Oct 2026 — a spread of $25 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 | $180 |
| Aug 2026 | $181 |
| Sep 2026 | $195 |
| Oct 2026 | $205 |
| Nov 2026 | $195 |
| Dec 2026 | $184 |
NBO–EBB fare history — 2026-W20 to 2026-W29
3 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached NBO–EBB low between $180 and $320 — a $140 spread, 78% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W27; the last reading in this table, 2026-W29, was $182. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.
| ISO week | Cached low (USD) | Carrier on the quote |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-W20 | $320 | F2 |
| 2026-W27 | $180 | — |
| 2026-W29 | $182 | — |
The cached low fell 43% between the first and last reading, from $320 to $182. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 3 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $180 was achievable on NBO–EBB inside the window, so a quote well above $320 is worth a second search.
Carriers behind the readings: F2. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.
How much baggage can you take on NBO–EBB?
23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on NBO–EBB, 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.
The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On NBO–EBB the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.
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 1 carrier mean a live NBO–EBB search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $357. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.2 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Three checks make a live NBO–EBB 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 1.2-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 NBO–EBB. 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 Entebbe
2 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Entebbe (EBB), Entebbe International, ICAO HUEN, from 2 catalogued origins and 2 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Entebbe, 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.
Entebbe is the site of Uganda’s main international airport, on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital, Kampala. For travellers from Nairobi it is a business and trade destination and a gateway to Uganda.
Beyond NBO, our catalogue reaches Entebbe from 1 other origin: Johannesburg (JNB). That matters when the NBO–EBB 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.
On the ground Uganda uses UGX, while every fare on this site is quoted in USD. That split is deliberate: USD is the only currency that makes a Lagos fare and a Nairobi fare comparable on one page, but it means the card you pay with will convert twice if your bank settles in a third currency. Airline sites often offer payment in UGX or in your home currency — the airline’s own rate is rarely the better of the two.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Nairobi to Entebbe? Direct NBO-EBB flights are operated by Kenya Airways. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the NBO-EBB flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.2 hours. The NBO-EBB route runs roughly 21 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a NBO-EBB 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 NBO-EBB? 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 Entebbe? Entebbe uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.
Related routes and reading
- Nairobi airport (NBO) — Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya: 19 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.
- Entebbe airport (EBB) — Entebbe International, Uganda: 6 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the NBO–EBB fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Entebbe 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.