✈ NBO → ICN
12H 43M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Nairobi to Seoul
From Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), Kenya Africa → Incheon (ICN), South Korea Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Seoul → Nairobi
How long is the flight from Nairobi to Seoul?
A nonstop flight from Nairobi (NBO) to Seoul (ICN) takes about 12 hours 43 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,247 miles (10,054 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 43m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,247 mi
10,054 km · great-circle
Avg speed
790 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Nairobi timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Nairobi
Seoul timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Seoul
Time difference
+6h
6 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~6d
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 Seoul
Nearest origins
- Shanghai → Seoul
- Osaka → Seoul
- Beijing → Seoul
- Tokyo → Seoul
- Taipei → Seoul
- Hong Kong → Seoul
- Manila → Seoul
- Bangkok → Seoul
- Kuala Lumpur → Seoul
- Singapore → Seoul
Long-haul to Seoul
- Buenos Aires → Seoul
- Santiago → Seoul
- São Paulo → Seoul
- Rio de Janeiro → Seoul
- Cape Town → Seoul
- Cancun → Seoul
- Miami → Seoul
- Johannesburg → Seoul
- Mexico City → Seoul
- Atlanta → Seoul