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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Huntington Beach 70, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Mombasa 45: Huntington Beach leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Mombasa 45: Huntington Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Mombasa 30: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Mombasa 35: Huntington Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Mombasa 22: Huntington Beach leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Mombasa 40: Mombasa leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachMombasa

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. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachMombasa
Official language-English, Swahili
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation12 m50 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachMombasa
City population198,7111,208,333
People per km²2,4064,100
Museums within 10 km30
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). 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.