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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Huatulco 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 Huatulco for

  • wellness
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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. Huatulco 86, Mombasa 82: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Mombasa 74: Huatulco leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Mombasa 45: Huatulco leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Mombasa 30: Huatulco leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Mombasa 35: Mombasa leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Mombasa 22: Mombasa leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Mombasa 40: Huatulco leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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.

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. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoMombasa
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation220 m50 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoMombasa
City population7,4091,208,333
People per km²-4,100
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.