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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Mombasa?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Mombasa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Mombasa 60: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Mombasa 45: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Mombasa 45: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Mombasa 30: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Mombasa 35: Adelaide leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Mombasa 22: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Mombasa 40: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Mombasa.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Mombasa
50match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Mombasa has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideMombasa
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number000Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation1 m50 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideMombasa
City population1,387,2901,208,333
People per km²1,0714,100
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.