✈ NBO → SEA
18H 1M IN ECONOMY = A FELONY AGAINST YOURSELF. UPGRADE.
Flight from Nairobi to Seattle
From Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), Kenya Africa → Sea-Tac (SEA), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Seattle → Nairobi
How long is the flight from Nairobi to Seattle?
A nonstop flight from Nairobi (NBO) to Seattle (SEA) takes about 18 hours 1 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 9,015 miles (14,508 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
18h 1m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
9,015 mi
14,508 km · great-circle
Avg speed
805 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Nairobi timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Nairobi
Seattle timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-10h
10 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~7d
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 → Vancouver
- Nairobi → Dallas
- Nairobi → Auckland
- Nairobi → Cancun
- Nairobi → Atlanta
- Nairobi → Chicago
More flights to North America
Flights to Seattle
Nearest origins
- Vancouver → Seattle
- San Francisco → Seattle
- Las Vegas → Seattle
- Los Angeles → Seattle
- Dallas → Seattle
- Chicago → Seattle
- Toronto → Seattle
- Atlanta → Seattle
- Mexico City → Seattle
- New York → Seattle
Long-haul to Seattle
- Johannesburg → Seattle
- Cape Town → Seattle
- Melbourne → Seattle
- Bali (Denpasar) → Seattle
- Kuala Lumpur → Seattle
- Singapore → Seattle
- Sydney → Seattle
- Mumbai → Seattle
- Abu Dhabi → Seattle
- Bangkok → Seattle