Cheap flights from New York to Nairobi from £296

If you don’t want to visit Nairobi in March, then you should wait until October to fly from New York, when ticket prices are also cheap, with an average price of £742.

The cheapest day to depart from New York to Nairobi is on a Thursday when prices can be found for as low as £826. If your travel schedule is flexible, try to avoid departing on a Friday because tickets tend to average around £1,726. These prices are subject to change though, so be sure to set up a Price Alert for flights to Nairobi.

Fly from New York John F Kennedy Intl to Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl for the best New York - Nairobi flight prices

You are more likely to see cheaper flights to Nairobi from New York when booking weeks ahead of your departure date. In general, you can expect to find flights to Nairobi for around £877 when searching weeks before you fly. However, flight prices might be lower outside of this timeframe. For example, people recently found flights to Nairobi from New York for as low as £771 on momondo.

Historically, on average around 23% of flights between New York and Nairobi have experienced a delay on any given week. The average delay length over the past 12 months has been 158 minutes.

Generally, flights departing in the evening tend to experience fewer delays. Flights departing in the early afternoon have, in the past, seen delays more frequently in comparison.

Saturday is statistically the day of the week that experiences the fewest delays on this flight route. Sunday has historically seen more delays on average compared to the rest of the week.

According to our data, Kenya Airways have had the fewest delays on this route over the last 12 months, with about 23% of their flights experiencing any sort of delay.

As of October 2026, there are 4 flights per week flying from New York to Nairobi. The most common day of the week flights depart is Wed, with 50% of flights taking off on this day.

On average, it takes 20h 12m to fly from New York to Nairobi if you fly out of New York (the most popular airport in New York) and into Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Airport (the most popular airport in Nairobi). If you’re flying out of Newark and into Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Airport, then the flight time is around 20h 30m.