There are 8 ways to get from Edinburgh to Kampala by plane, train, or bus
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe
best- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Entebbe (EBB)plane EDI - EBB
15h 54m$517–777Fly Edinburgh Airport to Kigali, bus
cheapest- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Kigali (KGL)plane EDI - KGL
- Take the bus from Kigali to Kampalabus
24h 2m$265–927Train to Newcastle, fly to Entebbe
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastletrain
- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Entebbe (EBB)plane NCL - EBB
20h 36m$283–1,074Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Entebbe
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Entebbe (EBB)plane GLA - EBB
19h 56m$508–1,138Train to Aberdeen Airport, fly to Entebbe
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeentrain
- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Entebbe (EBB)plane ABZ - EBB
18h 56m$326–1,319Train to Inverness Dalcross Airport, fly to Entebbe
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Invernesstrain
- Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) to Entebbe (EBB)plane INV - EBB
24h 8m$364–1,334Fly Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport, bus
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Kisumu International Airport (KIS)plane EDI - KIS
- Take the bus from Kisumu to Busiabus
- Take the bus from Busia to Kampalabus
25h 3m$320–1,015Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Kigali, bus
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Kigali (KGL)plane GLA - KGL
- Take the bus from Kigali to Kampalabus
24h 49m$276–938
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Entebbe (EBB) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Edinburgh to Kampala is to train and fly and bus which costs $270 - $950 and takes 24h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Edinburgh to Kampala is to fly which takes 15h 54m and costs $500 - $800.
The distance between Edinburgh and Kampala is 7053 km.
It takes approximately 15h 54m to get from Edinburgh to Kampala, including transfers.
Kampala is 3h ahead of Edinburgh. It is currently 1:27 AM in Edinburgh and 4:27 AM in Kampala.
There are 1798+ hotels available in Kampala.
What companies run services between Edinburgh, Scotland and Kampala, Uganda?
Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways, and two other airlines fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Entebbe (EBB) once daily.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Newcastle to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Kigali
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $260–950
Flights from Newcastle to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–1,100
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Kigali
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $240–900
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Kigali
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,200
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $320–1,300
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,300
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Kigali
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,200
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 2m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $240–900
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Kigali via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $240–900
- Website
- kenya-airways.com
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 55m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,300
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $450–1,300
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via London Heathrow, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 27m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via Istanbul, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–950
- Website
- rwandair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,200
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Kigali
- Ave. Duration
- 21h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $440–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $370–1,300
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $350–900
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $350–900
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Kigali via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $340–850
- Website
- ethiopianairlines.com
Flights from Newcastle to Entebbe via Frankfurt, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $400–1,100
Flights from Newcastle to Entebbe via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $400–1,200
Flights from Newcastle to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $400–1,200
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $480–1,400
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via London Gatwick, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $480–1,300
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $480–1,300
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,200
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,200
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Entebbe via London Heathrow, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,200
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 5m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $270–950
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $280–950
- Website
- qatarairways.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,200
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $370–1,300
- Website
- ugandairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Entebbe via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,200
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Entebbe via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,500
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kigali via Frankfurt, Addis Ababa
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $400–1,100
- Website
- jambojet.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Kisumu International Airport via Istanbul, Nairobi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–950
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $29–34
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–90
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $28–50
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $11–35
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–21
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $80–110
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- $280–310
- Sleeper Seat
- $80–110
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- $330–390
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $80–110
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- $280–310
- Sleeper Seat
- $80–110
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- $340–390
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $85–110
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- $280–310
- Sleeper Seat
- $85–110
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- $350–410
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $24–25
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–75
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 44m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–90
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- srclassiccoachafrica@gmail.com
- Website
- srclassic.com
Bus from Kigali to Kampala
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $4
- Schedules at
- srclassic.com
- Phone
- +254 724 581902
- Website
- tahmeedexpress.com
Bus from Kisumu to Busia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $3–21
- Schedules at
- tahmeedexpress.com
- Single
- $3–21
- Phone
- 0717073333
- buscareltd@gmail.com
- Website
- bus-car.co.ke
Bus from Busia to Kampala
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $7–10
- Website
- http://bus-car.co.ke/?fbclid=IwAR0ue-tmedLmaiQ3pC7R6TuzahIO7p698XH5v32MsQRE75qD18nAkNRKeR4#/
- Normal
- $7
- Business/VIP
- $10
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