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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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Homa_Bay_City_%282023%29.jpg)

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homa_Bay), 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kisumu-to-homa-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kisumu&to=Homa+Bay)
- Eldoret → Homa Bay Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eldoret-to-homa-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eldoret&to=Homa+Bay)
- Nairobi → Homa Bay Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nairobi-to-homa-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nairobi&to=Homa+Bay)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Homa%20Bay)

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. [Entebbe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/entebbe) UG 9 ways of moving, 38 sources 230 km
2. [Ssese Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ssese-islands) UG 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 245 km
3. [Bwindi Impenetrable National Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bwindi) UG 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 530 km
4. [Diani Beach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/diani-beach) KE 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 708 km
5. [Lamu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lamu) KE 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Choma-bay&title=Homa+Bay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhoma-bay), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Homa Bay

Homa Bay is 58 km from [Kisumu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kisumu), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

[The place page for Homa Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/homa-bay) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Kenya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-KE)


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