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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Cork 25, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Mombasa 45: Cork leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Mombasa 45: Cork leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Mombasa 30: Cork leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Mombasa 35: Cork leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Mombasa 22: Cork leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Mombasa 40: Mombasa leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkMombasa
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkMombasa
City population222,3331,208,333
People per km²5,9614,100
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.