Skip to content
Municipality in Homa Bay County, Kenya

Homa Bay

Homa Bay is a town on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya.

Homa Bay
Homa Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Homa Bay is a town on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya. It lies near Mount Homa and Ruma National Park, the latter noted for Jackson's hartebeests and roan antelope.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Asego Hill (just beyond the town). Takes about one hour to walk up. Ruma National Park.

From Wikivoyage: Homa Bay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Homa Bay

Airports
Kisumu (KIS), 57 km · Eldoret (EDL), 135 km · Entebbe (EBB), 232 km
  • Kisumu → Homa Bay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Eldoret → Homa Bay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Nairobi → Homa Bay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip
Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Homa Bay

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Homa Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 38 sources

    230 km
  2. 02
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    245 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    530 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    708 km
  5. 05
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    745 km

If you know how people move in Homa Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Homa Bay

Homa Bay is 58 km from Kisumu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.