NBO
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK) is a large airport in Nairobi, Nairobi City County, Kenya. It opened in 1958. It has one runway, 4,117 m (13,507 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Kenya Airports Authority. In 2021 it handled 1.9 million passengers.
Timeline
3 events · 1958–20141958
OpenedJomo Kenyatta International Airport opens.
20 NOV 1974
DisasterLufthansa Flight 540.59 killed
02 JUL 2014
DisasterSkyward International Aviation Fokker 50.4 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap06/24054° / 234° · LIT
LENGTH4,117 m13,507 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2010–20215.5M
6.3M
6.3M
5.9M
6.4M
6.5M
7.1M
7.3M
8.0M
9.1M
1.4M
1.9M
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Routes
69 destinations · 48 countriesYear-round57
JROKilimanjaro International AirportTanzania · Kenya Airways235 km146 miKISKisumu International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways280 km174 miMYDMalindi International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways412 km256 miMBAMoi International AirportKenya · Freedom Airline, 748 Air Services, Kenya Airways423 km263 miUKAUkunda AirstripKenya · 748 Air Services442 km275 miEBBEntebbe International AirportUganda · Kenya Airways521 km324 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways602 km374 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways667 km414 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · Kenya Airways758 km471 miBJMBujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International AirportBurundi · Kenya Airways874 km543 miJUBJuba International AirportSouth Sudan · Kenya Airways908 km564 miMGQAden Adde International AirportSomalia · Kenya Airways1,002 km623 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways1,164 km723 miHAHPrince Said Ibrahim International AirportComoros · Kenya Airways1,334 km829 miLLWKamuzu International AirportMalawi · Kenya Airways1,429 km888 miFBMLubumbashi International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Kenya Airways1,543 km959 miAPLNampula AirportMozambique · Kenya Airways1,555 km966 miDZADzaoudzi Pamandzi International AirportMayotte · Kenya Airways1,575 km979 miNLASimon Mwansa Kapwepwe International AirportZambia · Kenya Airways1,592 km989 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Zambia Airways, Kenya Airways1,815 km1,128 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Kenya Airways1,954 km1,214 miSEZSeychelles International AirportSeychelles · Kenya Airways2,098 km1,304 miLVIHarry Mwanga Nkumbula International AirportZambia · Kenya Airways2,200 km1,367 miVFAVictoria Falls International AirportZimbabwe · Kenya Airways2,224 km1,382 miTNRIvato International AirportMadagascar · Kenya Airways2,258 km1,403 miFIHNdjili International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Kenya Airways2,410 km1,498 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Saudia2,569 km1,596 miNBJDr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International AirportAngola · TAAG Angola Airlines2,731 km1,697 miMPMMaputo AirportMozambique · Kenya Airways2,775 km1,724 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Airlink, Kenya Airways2,912 km1,809 miDLADouala International AirportCameroon · Kenya Airways3,081 km1,914 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Kenya Airways3,098 km1,925 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas3,106 km1,930 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,353 km2,083 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air3,402 km2,114 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways3,444 km2,140 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir3,544 km2,202 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates, Kenya Airways3,559 km2,211 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia3,575 km2,221 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir3,607 km2,241 miLOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Kenya Airways3,832 km2,381 miLFWLomé–Tokoin International AirportTogo · Asky Airlines4,047 km2,515 miACCKotoka International AirportGhana · Kenya Airways4,191 km2,604 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Kenya Airways4,533 km2,817 miABJFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International AirportCôte d’Ivoire · Kenya Airways4,596 km2,856 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines4,808 km2,988 miROBRoberts International AirportLiberia · Kenya Airways5,316 km3,303 miFNALungi International AirportSierra Leone · Kenya Airways5,663 km3,519 miDSSBlaise Diagne International AirportSenegal · Kenya Airways6,200 km3,853 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France, Kenya Airways6,495 km4,036 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines6,567 km4,081 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM, Kenya Airways6,677 km4,149 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Kenya Airways6,802 km4,227 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Kenya Airways, British Airways6,841 km4,251 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Kenya Airways7,224 km4,489 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Kenya Airways8,679 km5,393 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Kenya Airways11,837 km7,355 miCargo26
EDLEldoret International AirportKenya · Ethiopian Airlines268 km167 miMWZMwanza International AirportTanzania · Astral Aviation461 km286 miEBBEntebbe International AirportUganda · Astral Aviation521 km324 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Astral Aviation602 km374 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Astral Aviation667 km414 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · Astral Aviation758 km471 miJUBJuba International AirportSouth Sudan · Astral Aviation908 km564 miMGQAden Adde International AirportSomalia · Astral Aviation1,002 km623 miPOLPemba AirportMozambique · Astral Aviation1,357 km843 miLLWKamuzu International AirportMalawi · Astral Aviation1,429 km888 miHGAEgal International AirportSomalia · Astral Aviation1,442 km896 miJIBDjibouti-Ambouli AirportDjibouti · Astral Aviation1,588 km987 miADEAden International AirportYemen · Astral Aviation1,809 km1,124 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Astral Aviation1,815 km1,128 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Astral Aviation1,954 km1,214 miMPMMaputo AirportMozambique · Astral Aviation2,775 km1,724 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Astral Aviation2,912 km1,809 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Astral Aviation3,515 km2,184 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · FedEx Express3,559 km2,211 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Astral Aviation4,533 km2,817 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Astral Aviation5,415 km3,365 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · My Freighter Airlines5,749 km3,572 miAKXAktobe International AirportKazakhstan · Astral Aviation6,050 km3,759 miLGGLiège AirportBelgium · Astral Aviation6,502 km4,040 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Astral Aviation8,679 km5,393 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Astral Aviation8,728 km5,423 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NBO. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Jomo Kenyatta International Airport” (revision of 19 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
32 airlines · destinations from NBOHub airlines6
KQKenya Airways448VAstral Aviation23XUAfrican Express AirwaysB5East African Safari Air—Eastafrican.com5HFly540Passenger24
FE748 Air Services2TCAir Tanzania2ETEthiopian Airlines2G9Air Arabia1AFAir France14ZAirlink1KPAsky Airlines1BABritish Airways1SNBrussels Airlines1MSEgyptAir1EKEmirates1EYEtihad Airways1FZflydubai1XYFlynas1—Freedom Airline1
GFGulf Air16EIndiGo1KLKLM1QRQatar Airways1OVSalamAir1SVSaudia1DTTAAG Angola Airlines1TKTurkish Airlines1ZNZambia Airways1Former hub of East African Airways, JetLink Express and Regional Air.
Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from NBO. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
4 channelsAPPAPP122.300
ATISATIS126.200
RMPAPRON CTL121.600
TWRNairobi Tower118.700