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Nairobi

Nairobi is the political, as well as financial and media capital of Kenya. A city of 4. Wikivoyage

Population 5,545,000 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Kenya

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Kenya

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Markets

  • Nairobi securities Exchange PLC

    1. Monday: 09:30–17:00
    2. Tuesday: 09:30–17:00
    3. Wednesday: 09:30–17:00
    4. Thursday: 09:30–17:00
    5. Friday: 09:30–17:00
    6. Saturday: closed
    7. Sunday: closed

    09:30–17:00

    1.5 km from the centre

  • City Market

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    310 m from the centre

  • Ngara Stalls

    No hours mapped

    1.1 km from the centre

  • Fig Tree Fresh Food Market - Ngara

    No hours mapped

    1.1 km from the centre

  • Fig Tree Shopping Centre

    No hours mapped

    1.1 km from the centre

  • Ngara Nyayo Market

    No hours mapped

    1.5 km from the centre

  • City Council Stalls

    No hours mapped

    1.7 km from the centre

  • Wakulima Market

    Opened in 1967 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/the-standard-insider/article/2001378392/smell-of-money-the-millionaire-chamas-of-marikiti-market).

    No hours mapped

    1.8 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 32 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

Train stations: Nairobi Central Railway Station 1.6 km, Laini Saba Railway Halt 3.8 km, Kibera Train station 5.8 km, Kibera 5.8 km, Jamuhuri railways 5.9 km

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