Distance from Hong Kong to Nairobi
Flying the shortest possible route, Nairobi lies 8,764 km (5,446 miles, 4,732 nautical miles) from Hong Kong — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,764 km · 5,446 mi · 4,732 nmi
- Initial bearing Hong Kong → Nairobi
- 264° (W)
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Hong Kong
- 67° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Hong Kong UTC+08:00 · Nairobi UTC+03:00 (-5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 280 min — the sun rises earlier in Hong Kong
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
- Hong Kong
- 22.2783, 114.1747
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:32 UTC / 09:44 UTC
- Nairobi
- -1.2833, 36.8167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:12 UTC / 15:22 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.