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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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. Lisbon 50, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Mombasa 60: Lisbon leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Mombasa 55: Lisbon leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Mombasa 46: Lisbon leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Mombasa 74: Lisbon leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Mombasa 45: Lisbon leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Mombasa 45: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Mombasa 30: Lisbon leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Mombasa 35: Lisbon leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Mombasa 22: Lisbon leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 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: Lisbon and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonMombasa
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation100 m50 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMombasa
City population545,7961,208,333
People per km²5,4534,100
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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.