Kitale is a small agricultural town in western Kenya situated between Mount Elgon and the Cherengani Hills at an elevation of around 7000 feet.

It is the administrative centre of the Trans-Nzoia District of Rift Valley Province. The main cash crops grown in the area are Sunflower, tea, coffee, Pyrethrum, seed beans and seed maize.

The town was founded in 1908 by white settlers. A branch line of the Uganda Railway from Eldoret reached Kitale in 1926 allowing quicker growth.