🇰🇪🇿🇲KES → ZMW corridor
Send money from Kenya to Zambia.
The short answer
You can send Kenyan shillings to Zambia with Eversend, funding straight from M-Pesa, and the kwacha lands on the recipient's mobile money wallet in about a minute. Both economies trade heavily inside COMESA but their payment systems never touch; this corridor closes that gap with one conversion at the KES to ZMW rate shown before you send. M-Pesa was born in Kenya and remains its deepest payment habit, which is why the sending half of this route never needs a branch, a cheque or a card.
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Send KES → ZMWUp to date
You send
KSh
🇰🇪KES
1 KES = 0.1443 ZMWLIVE
fees included · updated in the last 30 min
Recipient gets
706
🇿🇲ZMW
fee ZK 16deducted, shown before you send
706 ZMW more than a typical bank transfer would deliver
Arrives in about a minutemedian 0.8 min, last 90 days
Start this transfer Today's rate · KES → ZMW
1 KES = 0.1443 ZMWUpdated in the last 30 min
The rate refreshes every 30 minutes. The recipient amount you see already includes our commission: what you see is what they get.
Delivery times
How fast money arrives in Zambia.
Delivery depends on how the recipient is paid. These are measured times, not promises.
Mobile money~1 min
~1 min
89% land within 5 minutes
To their MTN Mobile Money or Airtel Money wallet, day or night.
EversendInstant
Instant
Lands the moment you send
If they have Eversend, the money is theirs the second you confirm.
Medians measured over the last 90 days of real transfers. A first transfer may need a one-time verification.
Send KES to Zambia in 3 steps.
01
Verify once
Download Eversend and confirm your identity a single time.
02
Fund from M-Pesa
Top up in shillings straight from M-Pesa, or by bank transfer.
03
Send to their wallet
Zambia, the amount, their phone number. Rate shown, then confirm.
Where the money lands
Payout methods in Zambia.
Mobile money
Instant payout to the wallets Zambians use every day.
MTN Mobile MoneyAirtel Money
Eversend wallet
Free and instant between Eversend accounts.
Eversend to Eversend
KES → ZMW, compared
A typical bank
Eversend
Rate you see
Hidden until it lands
Shown before you send
Transfer fee
Wire fees at both ends
ZK 16 to mobile money, wallet free
Money arrives
2 to 5 business days
About a minute
Mobile money payout
Not supported
MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money
KES → ZMW, compared
Rate you see
A typical bank
Hidden until it lands
Eversend
Shown before you send
Transfer fee
A typical bank
Wire fees at both ends
Eversend
ZK 16 to mobile money, wallet free
Money arrives
A typical bank
2 to 5 business days
Eversend
About a minute
Mobile money payout
A typical bank
Not supported
Eversend
MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money
More ways to send to Zambia
KES → ZMW questions.
Yes. Fund your balance from M-Pesa in Kenya and the kwacha is paid to the recipient's Zambian mobile money wallet with just their phone number, in about a minute.
M-Pesa to kwacha in about a minute.
Fund from M-Pesa and their Zambian wallet is credited.
eversendLicensed money transfer · rates are indicative, refreshed every 30 minutes · KES → ZMW