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Kenya to the Cape

Safari country, the Cape, then an island to finish. 3 stops, 8,218 km end to end as the crow flies.

Nairobi
Photo by Greg Gebhardt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
September and October are a sweet spot at every one of these 3 destinations.

The stops, in order

Month by month

Place JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Nairobi 26° 27° 27° 25° 24° 23° 23° 23° 25° 26° 24° 25°
Cape Town 25° 25° 24° 21° 19° 17° 16° 16° 18° 20° 22° 23°
Mauritius 28° 28° 28° 27° 25° 24° 23° 24° 24° 26° 27° 28°
Sweet spots 120101223300

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.

Between the stops

Nairobi → Cape Town 4,101 km, about 5h 55m in the air
Nonstop · Kenya Airways, VistaJet
Cape Town → Mauritius 4,117 km, about 5h 56m in the air
Nonstop, about 1 a day · 3 airlines

Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Kenya to the Cape as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.