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

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.

[Plan a trip to Homa Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Homa%20Bay) [From Kisumu](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kisumu&to=Homa+Bay)

## Every way there

- 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)

The field note

What is in and around Homa Bay, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Homa Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/homa-bay)

What Homa Bay has

- Yes Scheduled flights Kisumu (KIS), 57 km as the crow flies
- No Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Yes Ferries Mbit, 24 km; sailings estimated
- Yes Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- No Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- No Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Yes: you can plan it here today · Not yet: we know a source but do not plan with it yet · No: no source we know of.

-0.517°, 34.450°

It lies near Mount Homa and Ruma National Park, the latter noted for Jackson's hartebeests and roan antelope.

Get in

## Getting to Homa Bay

Easy Coach bus to Nairobi takes 8 hours. A bus to Kericho 4 hours, to Mbita 1½ hours, and to Kisumu 3 hours. Its 58 km from Homa Bay to Kisii.

See

## Worth seeing

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

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homa_Bay) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Homa_Bay), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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