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 miMost destinationsKenya Airways 44Astral Aviation 23748 Air Services 2Air Tanzania 2Ethiopian Airlines 2Freedom Airline 1
Straight 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.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 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