Internet conditions in Nairobi, Kenya
Where this is
The district the measurement describes.
District outline, KASPR boundary layer
The week, hour by hour
Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.
What makes the score
Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within Kenya.
Two years of months
Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.
Disruptions
Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.
Worst hours of a typical week: Sun 20:00, Sat 21:00, Sun 21:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 75%.
Other cities
Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.
What to do with this
Three ways in, one per product.
Check your own locations
Paste your sites or offices and get a grade and a report for each. The first look is free.
Open the location check →When to connect from Nairobi
Pick the people on a call or the audience for a post and see the steadier hours, on the web or in Slack.
Open KASPR Sense →Monitor Nairobi
Alerts the moment the district breaks, the full history, and the data behind this page in the dashboard.
Explore the dashboard →Questions people ask
- Is the internet in Nairobi good?
- By world standards Nairobi sits in the 2th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 263 ms typical latency and 79 ms jitter. Within Kenya it ranks 31st of 33, in the bottom fifth.
- When is the internet in Nairobi worst?
- The roughest slot of a typical week is Sun 20:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 75%. The steadiest is Wed 03:00 at 10%. Between them, the hour of the week matters a little here.
- Were there internet outages in Nairobi recently?
- One episode in the last twelve months, 8 days in all. The latest ran from 9 Jul 2026 to 16 Jul 2026, with responding addresses 59% below the district’s baseline.
- How is this measured?
- KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.
Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures