The sector is held by Kenya Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ACC Accra to NBO Nairobi
Kotoka International, Ghana, to Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 4,191 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 33m
- Door to door
- 12h 18m
What ACC to NBO looks like
The ACC to NBO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Accra ACC to Nairobi NBO is a long haul sector of 4,191 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,191 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 33m.
Accra ACC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 32 scheduled destinations and 67.9 departures a day. Nairobi NBO has 59 destinations and 148.6 departures a day.
Nairobi is 3 hours ahead of Accra all year.
The pair sits inside Africa, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ACC to NBO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC to NBO | 1 | 7 | Kenya Airways |
| NBO to ACC | 1.14 | 8 | Kenya Airways |
One carrier holds the sector, Kenya Airways, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 15 departures a week on ACC to NBO, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 33m block time on ACC to NBO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ACC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ACC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ACC to NBO in the air, estimated | 333 min | 10h 03m |
| Formalities at NBO | 90 min | 11h 33m |
| Delivery run in Nairobi | 45 min | 12h 18m |
| Door to door | 738 min | 12h 18m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ACC to NBO is 12h 18m.
A courier who leaves Accra at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nairobi at about 17:33 local and at the door by 19:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nairobi, the last useful departure from Accra is around 07:12 local.
At 12h 18m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 15 of them join ACC to NBO.
| Connecting at | ACC to hub, flights a day | Hub to NBO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lome LFW | 3 | 0.57 | 4,216 | 7h 07m |
| Lagos LOS | 7.43 | 1.14 | 4,233 | 7h 12m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.43 | 2.86 | 5,476 | 8h 56m |
| Johannesburg JNB | 0.86 | 3.86 | 7,586 | 11h 21m |
| Cairo CAI | 0.57 | 1.29 | 7,828 | 11h 41m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.43 | 0.86 | 9,703 | 14h 11m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ACC in the afternoon actually flies on.
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lome LFW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LFW the routing covers 4,216 km against the 4,191 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 07m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Lagos LOS at 7h 12m and Addis Ababa ADD at 8h 56m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Accra to Nairobi yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ACC to NBO in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ACC airport entry
- The NBO airport entry
- Hand carry into Ghana
- Hand carry into Kenya
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Nairobi
- The written lane, Doha to Nairobi
- The route calculator
More pairs through ACC and NBO: Accra to Beirut, Accra to Lagos, Accra to Addis Ababa, Accra to Casablanca, Accra to Johannesburg, Accra to Cairo, Accra to Dar es Salaam, Nairobi to Jeddah.