Makadara
Makadara is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi.
Makadara is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the central business district of Nairobi.
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Worth seeing in and around Makadara
3 places 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.
- 01Nairobi City Stadium
Nairobi City Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. It is located east of the city centre.
3.3 km · building in Kenya · Wikipedia - 02Gikomba market
Gikomba market is an open-air market in Nairobi, Kenya. The market includes sellers of a wide range of goods, including food and clothing.
3.5 km · open-air market in Nairobi · Wikipedia - 03Nairobi Kenya Temple
The Nairobi Kenya Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Nairobi, Kenya. Announced on April 2, 2017, by church president Thomas S. Monson during general conference.
1.1 km · LDS Church temple (2025) · Wikipedia
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.
Getting to Makadara
- Airports
- Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), 7 km · Kilimanjaro (JRO), 238 km · Eldoret (EDL), 262 km
- Stations
- Moi Air Base, 2.3 km
- Eldoret → Makadara269 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · KSh6,410–9,940
- Kisumu → Makadara270 km · quickest by air, 3h 41m · KSh5,920–9,180
- Mombasa → MakadaraTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Makadara
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 Makadara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMatatus (11- to 18-seater minibuses) and shuttles (6-seater cars) are convenient, inexpensive (and often the only) modes of public transport for connecting Nairobi with towns and tourist destinations in the Rift Valley and Central Highlands such as Naivasha, Nyeri, Nanyuki, Isiolo, and Thika.
- Get inMatatus can be obtained from the River Road area.
- Get inExtreme caution should be exercised in this area because petty theft is a major concern; avoid showing valuables such as mobile phones, even while in the matatu (see safety section below).
- Get inThe best method of connecting to a matatu is to arrange for a taxi to drop you off and pick you up directly at the location of the matatu that you are boarding or alighting from.
- Get inIf you're boarding a matatu from Nairobi, tell the taxi driver your destination and they will drop you off at the correct location.
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Next door to Makadara
Makadara is 6 km from Nairobi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Eastleighsuburb of Nairobi, Kenya4 km
- Mukuru kwa Njengainformal settlement in the Embakasi area of Nairobi1.8 km
- Pipeline, Nairobislum-like residential neighbourhood in Embakasi, Nairobi3.8 km
- Kware, Nairobislum-like residential neighbourhood in Embakasi, Nairobi2.8 km
- Shauri Moyoneighbourhood in Pumwani area of Nairobi2.8 km
- Umoja, Nairobiresidential suburb in Eastlands area of Nairobi2.7 km