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Town · Kenya · Homa Bay County

# Homa Bay

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Homa Bay

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Roman Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay The Roman Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay ) is a diocese located in the city of Homa Bay in the ecclesiastical province of Kisumu in Kenya. 800 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Homa_Bay)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Homa Bay

**Airports:** Kisumu (KIS), 58 km · Eldoret (EDL), 135 km · Entebbe (EBB), 233 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 231 km
2. [Ssese Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ssese-islands) UG 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 246 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 707 km
5. [Lamu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lamu) KE 9 ways of moving, 27 sources 744 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&title=Homa+Bay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhoma), 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) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Kenya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-KE)


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