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Cooking gas (6kg)

Kibera · KES

Over the weeks shown, cooking gas (6kg) costs about 16% more in KES. Measured in sats, it is 14% cheaper.

In short: it takes more shillings to buy, but fewer sats. Saving in Bitcoin would have stretched further here.

In KES
+16.4%
In sats
-13.9%
Official CPI (YoY)
+5.2%

Both lines start at 100, so you can see how each moves apart over time.

KES Sats Official CPI

Weekly medians

Week of KES Sats
2025-09-01 1300 16,250
2025-10-01 1322 15,983
2025-11-01 1345 15,720
2025-12-01 1367 15,462
2026-01-01 1391 15,207
2026-02-01 1414 14,957
2026-03-01 1438 14,711
2026-04-01 1463 14,470
2026-05-01 1488 14,232
2026-06-01 1513 13,998