This is on the back of a weak shilling that has seen the cost of imports, for both finished goods and raw material, increase forcing importers and manufacturers to raise prices.
Consumers are also hit by forex adjustment on power bills, which has seen electricity cost remain high.
High global crude prices has also seen the price of importing refined petroleum products remain high impacting on the cost of transport.
Crude oil prices went up by about about $2 a barrel on Monday on supply jitters, with a barrel of Brent averaging $77.99.
This came with the closure of a key pipeline supplying the US and Russia with China's easing of Covid-19 restrictions raising demand.
The Kenya shilling on Wednesday fell to a low of 122.89 to the US dollar amid falling forex reserves, which closed last week at $7.10 billion (Sh872.6 billion).
Importers have however been buying the dollar at up to Sh130 for a dollar.
Apart from oil, Kenya also imports machinery, medicine and pharmaceuticals products, vegetable oil, wheat, clothing and shoes, clinker, electrical and electronics among other products.
Consumers goods common with the festive season will cost more this year compared to last year.
The price of a two-kilogram packet of wheat flour will cost you Sh70 more this year, having gone up to an average Sh208 compared to Sh135 in December last year.
Most maize flour brands are retailing at between Sh190 and Sh221, up from an average Sh134 last year.
It will cost about Sh160 more to purchase a litre of cooking oil which is retailing at an average Sh450, compared to Sh300 over the same period last year.
Sugar is retailing at between Sh300-Sh302 depending on the brand, from an average Sh250 last Christmas.
Milk and bread prices have also increased by at least Sh5 compared to last year, with a 300-millilitre packet retailing at an average Sh57.
A 500 grams white loaf is selling at Sh60 up from a low of Sh50 and Sh55 last year.
This year, Kenyan households will also feel the pinch on travelling and cooking compared to last year.
Last year, a litre of petrol was averaging Sh129.72 in Nairobi while diesel was at Sh110.60.
Kerosene, mostly used by low-income households for cooking and lighting was retailing at Sh103.54 at the pump.
The country’s inflation has been above the central bank’s 7.5 per cent ceiling since June, and reached a five-year high of 9.6 per cent in October, before slightly easing to 9.5 per cent last month.
“The rise in inflation was largely due to increase in prices of commodities under food and non-alcoholic beverages (15.4%), transport (11.7%) and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.1%) between November 2021 and November 2022,” Kenya National Bureau of Statistics director general Macdonald Obudho said.
These three divisions account for over 57 per cent of the weights of the 13 broad categories used to measure the cost of living.
