There are 7 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£361–1,011Fly 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 54m£178–676Fly to Newcastle, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Newcastle (NCL)plane KGL - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
16h 20m£181–735Fly 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 49m£299–834Fly to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane KGL - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h£219–881Fly to Manchester Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane KGL - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h£178–711Fly to Inverness Dalcross Airport, train
- Fly from Kigali (KGL) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV)plane KGL - INV
- Take the train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
20h 38m£240–891
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 £170 - £700 and takes 15h 54m.
The fastest way to get from Kigali to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 14h 51m and costs £360 - £1,100.
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 10:56 AM in Kigali and 8:56 AM in Edinburgh.
There are 2451+ hotels available in Edinburgh.
What companies run services between Kigali, Rwanda and Edinburgh, Scotland?
Rwandair Express, British Airways, and five other airlines fly from Kigali (KGL) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) twice daily.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £160–600
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £170–650
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £180–750
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–950
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £150–600
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–900
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–550
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–600
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £290–750
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Nairobi, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–950
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 2m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £330–900
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £290–750
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £340–950
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £210–550
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £250–700
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £290–750
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £340–950
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £220–550
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £160–600
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Entebbe, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–900
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Addis Ababa, London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Monday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–700
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 10m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £220–600
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £210–550
Flights from Kigali to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £290–750
- 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
- £290–750
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Nairobi, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–900
Flights from Kigali to Dundee Riverside Airport via Addis Ababa, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 2m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £330–900
- Website
- kenya-airways.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £220–550
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Kigali to Aberdeen Airport via Nairobi, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–950
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Entebbe, Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £190–700
Flights from Kigali to Manchester Airport via Entebbe, Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £190–700
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Addis Ababa, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–700
Flights from Kigali to Newcastle via Addis Ababa, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £280–750
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Kigali to Edinburgh Airport via Addis Ababa, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £250–700
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Kigali to Glasgow Airport via Addis Ababa, Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–700
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- £17–18
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £11–27
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £16–55
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £22–65
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- 0800 031 8542
- Passengerassistance@lumo.co.uk.
- Website
- lumo.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £17–18
- Website
- https://www.lumo.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £60–75
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–75
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £230–260
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £240–290
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £230–270
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £250–290
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £260–300
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £11–17
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £17–25
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £24–80
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £6–25
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £8–50
- 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
- £8–22
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £27–110
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
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