There are 6 ways to get from Kigali to Edinburgh by plane or train
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Fly to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane KGL - EDI
14h 51m£251–661Fly to Glasgow Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane KGL - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
15h 56m£191–691Fly to Newcastle, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Newcastle (NCL)plane KGL - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
16h 20m£220–845Fly to Dundee Riverside Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Dundee Riverside Airport (DND)plane KGL - DND
- Take the train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h 48m£256–1,049Fly to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane KGL - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h 24m£435–558Fly to Manchester Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane KGL - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
18h 58m£321–791
Kigali (KGL) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Kigali to Edinburgh is to fly and train which costs £190 - £700 and takes 15h 56m.
The fastest way to get from Kigali to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 14h 51m and costs £250 - £700.
The distance between Kigali and Edinburgh is 4462 miles.
It takes approximately 14h 51m to get from Kigali to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Edinburgh is 2h behind Kigali. It is currently 10:21 AM in Kigali and 8:21 AM in Edinburgh.
There are 2557+ hotels available in Edinburgh.
What companies run services between Kigali, Rwanda and Edinburgh, Scotland?
Rwandair Express, British Airways, and six other airlines fly from Kigali (KGL) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) 3 times a day.
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £270–750
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £330–900
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Nairobi, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–1,200
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 2m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £380–1,300
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £320–850
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £240–650
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £170–650
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–750
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £220–850
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 46m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–1,100
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Addis Ababa, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £270–900
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Nairobi, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–850
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Addis Ababa, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £280–900
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Nairobi, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £230–950
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Addis Ababa, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £270–900
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £270–750
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £220–850
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Entebbe, Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £200–750
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Entebbe, Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £320–850
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Addis Ababa, Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £270–900
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £330–900
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Nairobi, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £340–1,200
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 2m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £380–1,300
- Website
- kenya-airways.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £270–750
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 25m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,100
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Addis Ababa, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £280–900
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Addis Ababa, Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £280–900
- 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
- £16–25
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £60–90
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £29–45
- 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/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £40–75
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £80–140
- 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
- £27–50
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £13–22
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £29–50
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
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