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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Belfast 20, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast and Mombasa are level on 55.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Mombasa 46: Belfast leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast and Mombasa are level on 74.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Mombasa 45: Belfast leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Mombasa 45: Belfast leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Mombasa 30: Belfast leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Mombasa 35: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Mombasa 22: Belfast leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Mombasa 40: Mombasa leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
51match

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

Mombasa
50match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastMombasa
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation3 m50 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastMombasa
City population345,0061,208,333
People per km²3,0004,100
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.