Distance from Nairobi to Tokyo
Flying the shortest possible route, Tokyo lies 11,251 km (6,991 miles, 6,075 nautical miles) from Nairobi — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,251 km · 6,991 mi · 6,075 nmi
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Tokyo
- 54° (NE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Nairobi
- 277° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 54 min
- Time zones
- Nairobi UTC+03:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 362 min — the sun rises later in Nairobi
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
- Nairobi
- -1.2833, 36.8167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:12 UTC / 15:22 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:10 UTC / 07:41 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.