✈ NBO → PEK
11H 44M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Nairobi to Beijing
From Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), Kenya Africa → Beijing Capital (PEK), China Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Beijing → Nairobi
How long is the flight from Nairobi to Beijing?
A nonstop flight from Nairobi (NBO) to Beijing (PEK) takes about 11 hours 44 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,732 miles (9,225 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 44m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,732 mi
9,225 km · great-circle
Avg speed
786 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Nairobi timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Nairobi
Beijing timezone
UTC+8
Asia/Shanghai
Time difference
+5h
5 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~5d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Nairobi
Nearest destinations
- Nairobi → Johannesburg
- Nairobi → Doha
- Nairobi → Abu Dhabi
- Nairobi → Cairo
- Nairobi → Dubai
- Nairobi → Tel Aviv
- Nairobi → Cape Town
- Nairobi → Mumbai
- Nairobi → Athens
- Nairobi → Istanbul
Long-haul from Nairobi
- Nairobi → Los Angeles
- Nairobi → San Francisco
- Nairobi → Las Vegas
- Nairobi → Mexico City
- Nairobi → Seattle
- Nairobi → Vancouver
- Nairobi → Dallas
- Nairobi → Auckland
- Nairobi → Cancun
- Nairobi → Atlanta
More flights to Asia
Flights to Beijing
Nearest origins
- Seoul → Beijing
- Shanghai → Beijing
- Taipei → Beijing
- Osaka → Beijing
- Hong Kong → Beijing
- Tokyo → Beijing
- Manila → Beijing
- Bangkok → Beijing
- Delhi → Beijing
- Kuala Lumpur → Beijing
Long-haul to Beijing
- Buenos Aires → Beijing
- Santiago → Beijing
- São Paulo → Beijing
- Rio de Janeiro → Beijing
- Cape Town → Beijing
- Cancun → Beijing
- Miami → Beijing
- Mexico City → Beijing
- Johannesburg → Beijing
- Atlanta → Beijing