Motor Rewinding in Kamukunji

Where Kamukunji sits in Nairobi. Of the 8 constituencies in this county we hold confirmed elevation data for, Kamukunji is the 2nd highest — and those constituencies span 130 m between highest and lowest. That spread is the reason a county-level figure is not good enough to size against: two sites in Nairobi can need different machines for the same load.

Nearby, for comparison. Kasarani at 1,600 m, Mathare at 1,614 m, Roysambu at 1,615 m, Ruaraka at 1,652 m. Sites within a few kilometres of each other can still differ enough to matter, which is why we size against a measured site altitude rather than a district average.

Getting there. Kamukunji is roughly 9 km west of our Embakasi, Nairobi workshop in a straight line. Our mobile workshop covers all 47 counties, so attendance here is routine rather than exceptional.

How to read these figures. They describe Kamukunji, the settlement these measurements were taken at, which is not necessarily the centre of Kamukunji — treat them as a local reference point, not your site value. Derates are planning indications (about 1% per 100 m above 300 m, about 2% per 5 °C above 25 °C); the engine's own derate table governs. Elevation: GeoNames, via the Open-Meteo Geocoding API. Temperature: Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis, 2025 daily maxima. Both CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-08.