Distance from Mumbai to Nairobi
Mumbai (India) and Nairobi (Kenya) are 4,542 km apart — that's 2,822 miles or 2,452 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,542 km · 2,822 mi · 2,452 nmi
- Initial bearing Mumbai → Nairobi
- 244° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Mumbai
- 58° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 6 h 00 min
- Time zones
- Mumbai UTC+05:30 · Nairobi UTC+03:00 (-2.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 169 min — the sun rises earlier in Mumbai
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
- Mumbai
- 19.0728, 72.8826
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:48 UTC / 13:42 UTC
- Nairobi
- -1.2833, 36.8167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:37 UTC / 15:41 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.