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Kenya

13 cities in the atlas · 11 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Nairobi
Currency: KES; Kenyan Shilling
Local time: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +254
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G

Facts

Kenya in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Nairobi
Currency: Kenyan Shilling KESToday's indicative rate: KES 100 ≈ USD 0.771Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Swahili and EnglishSpoken: English and Swahili
Time zones: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +254
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type G240 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112ambulance, fire and police999ambulance, fire and policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 57,532,493 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 582,650 km²
Internet domain: .ke
Land borders: Ethiopia Somalia South Sudan Tanzania Uganda

When to go

Climate across Kenya

In June to March, more than half of the 8 cities with figures in Kenya have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Nairobi	27°	29°	29°	27°	25°	25°	26°	26°	28°	28°	26°	26°
Mombasa	33°	34°	33°	31°	29°	28°	28°	29°	30°	31°	31°	32°
Kisumu	27°	28°	28°	26°	25°	23°	23°	24°	25°	26°	25°	26°
Nakuru	23°	24°	24°	22°	20°	20°	19°	20°	21°	21°	21°	22°
Eldoret	25°	27°	28°	25°	24°	22°	22°	22°	24°	24°	23°	24°
Kakamega	25°	27°	28°	25°	24°	22°	22°	22°	24°	24°	23°	24°
Ruiru	26°	27°	27°	25°	24°	23°	24°	25°	26°	26°	24°	24°
Kikuyu	26°	27°	27°	25°	24°	23°	24°	25°	26°	26°	24°	24°
Cities good for going, of 8	7	7	6	2	4	6	6	6	5	5	5	7

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Kenya is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Kenya

All 13 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 5

Airports

Airports in Kenya

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 7

Photographs

Kenya in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Nairobi
Photo: Daryona · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Kenya

Kenya
Nairobi

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Kenya

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.