There are 7 ways to get from Kenya to Edinburgh by bus, plane, or train
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Bus to Nairobi, fly to Edinburgh Airport
best- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane NBO - EDI
14h 50m£311–431Fly Kisumu International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
cheapest- Fly from Kisumu International Airport (KIS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane KIS - EDI
18h 32m£202–774Bus to Nairobi, fly to Glasgow Airport, train
- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane NBO - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
15h 50m£234–796Bus to Nairobi, fly to Newcastle, train
- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Newcastle (NCL)plane NBO - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
16h 9m£277–950Bus to Nairobi, fly to Dundee Riverside Airport, train
- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Dundee Riverside Airport (DND)plane NBO - DND
- Take the train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
18h 52m£274–1,049Bus to Nairobi, fly to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane NBO - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h 8m£281–1,108Bus to Nairobi, fly to Durham Tees Valley Airport, train
- Take the bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boardingbus
- Fly from Nairobi (NBO) to Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME)plane NBO - MME
- Take the train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
21h 38m£551–1,930
Nairobi (NBO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Kenya to Edinburgh is to bus and fly which costs £310 - £440 and takes 14h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Kenya to Edinburgh is to bus and fly which takes 14h 50m and costs £310 - £440.
The distance between Kenya and Edinburgh is 4616 miles.
It takes approximately 14h 50m to get from Kenya to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Edinburgh is 2h behind Kenya. It is currently 3:48 AM in Kenya and 1:48 AM in Edinburgh.
There are 1630+ hotels available in Edinburgh.
What companies run services between Kenya and Edinburgh, Scotland?
FlexFlight ApS, Lufthansa, and two other airlines fly from Kisumu International Airport (KIS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) twice daily.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–800
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–900
Flights from Kisumu International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £180–750
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £220–1,000
Flights from Nairobi to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £250–1,200
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £470–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Istanbul, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £500–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Cairo, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £650–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Jeddah, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £500–1,800
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £190–750
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £190–750
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £220–900
Flights from Nairobi to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £260–1,200
Flights from Nairobi to Dundee Riverside Airport via Frankfurt, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £280–1,300
Flights from Nairobi to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 22m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–1,200
- Website
- kenya-airways.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £270–900
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £270–900
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £270–900
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £310–1,000
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £310–1,000
Flights from Nairobi to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £340–1,200
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £650–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £650–2,200
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–800
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 50m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–800
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–900
Flights from Nairobi to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £250–1,000
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £470–1,900
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Istanbul, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £500–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Cairo, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £650–2,100
Flights from Nairobi to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Jeddah, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £500–1,800
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–900
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–900
Flights from Kisumu International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Nairobi, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–900
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–1,100
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £230–850
Flights from Kisumu International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Entebbe, Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–850
- Website
- saudia.com
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Jeddah, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–750
Flights from Nairobi to Newcastle via Jeddah, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–850
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Nairobi to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £360–1,200
Flights from Nairobi to Dundee Riverside Airport via Frankfurt, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £280–1,300
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Nairobi to Edinburgh Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–900
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Nairobi to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £270–1,000
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £25–45
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £55–100
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £16–26
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £35–60
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–70
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £65–95
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £30–45
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £65–95
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £80–120
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £40–75
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £24–40
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £11–19
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £25–45
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Website
- digitalmatatus.com
Bus from Kencom/Ambassadeur to JKIA - Passenger Boarding
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £1
- Schedules at
- digitalmatatus.com
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