✈ NBO → CUN
16H 53M, 8,418 MILES. YOUR ANCESTORS WALKED LESS THAN THIS.
Flight from Nairobi to Cancun
From Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), Kenya Africa → Cancun International (CUN), Mexico North America
↔ Flying the other way? Cancun → Nairobi
How long is the flight from Nairobi to Cancun?
A nonstop flight from Nairobi (NBO) to Cancun (CUN) takes about 16 hours 53 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,418 miles (13,547 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
16h 53m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,418 mi
13,547 km · great-circle
Avg speed
803 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Nairobi timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Nairobi
Cancun timezone
UTC-5
America/Cancun
Time difference
-8h
8 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~5.6d
Westward — easier
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 → Atlanta
- Nairobi → Chicago
More flights to North America
Flights to Cancun
Nearest origins
- Miami → Cancun
- Mexico City → Cancun
- Atlanta → Cancun
- Dallas → Cancun
- Chicago → Cancun
- New York → Cancun
- Toronto → Cancun
- Boston → Cancun
- Las Vegas → Cancun
- Los Angeles → Cancun
Long-haul to Cancun
- Bali (Denpasar) → Cancun
- Singapore → Cancun
- Kuala Lumpur → Cancun
- Bangkok → Cancun
- Mumbai → Cancun
- Manila → Cancun
- Melbourne → Cancun
- Hong Kong → Cancun
- Delhi → Cancun
- Sydney → Cancun