Distance from Bangkok to Nairobi
The great-circle distance between Bangkok, Thailand and Nairobi, Kenya is 7,210 km (4,480 mi · 3,893 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,210 km · 4,480 mi · 3,893 nmi
- Initial bearing Bangkok → Nairobi
- 262° (W)
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Bangkok
- 74° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 08 min
- Time zones
- Bangkok UTC+07:00 · Nairobi UTC+03:00 (-4 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 255 min — the sun rises earlier in Bangkok
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Bangkok
- 13.7540, 100.5014
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:08 UTC / 11:15 UTC
- Nairobi
- -1.2833, 36.8167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:23 UTC / 15:29 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.