Distance from Los Angeles to Nairobi
Flying the shortest possible route, Nairobi lies 15,543 km (9,658 miles, 8,393 nautical miles) from Los Angeles — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,543 km · 9,658 mi · 8,393 nmi
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Nairobi
- 41° (NE)
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Los Angeles
- 327° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 57 min
- Time zones
- Los Angeles UTC-07:00 · Nairobi UTC+03:00 (+10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 620 min — the sun rises later in Los Angeles
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
- Los Angeles
- 34.0522, -118.2437
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 13:43 UTC / 01:50 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.