Kitale is a town in the north west of Kenya, in the former Rift Valley province, between Mount Elgon and the Cherangany Hills.

[6] Kitale lies between Mount Elgon and Cherang'any Hills is 72.3 km (44.9 mi) by road north west of Eldoret.

In 1920 Arthur Champion, the colonial district commissioner, established a new headquarters in the Trans Nzoia at the future sure of the township of Kitale.

[7] In 1930 locusts caused extensive damage to crops.

[8] Kitale has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) very closely bordering on Cwb.