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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

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

Manaus 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 Manaus for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Manaus 38, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Manaus 56, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Manaus 46, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Manaus 42, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manaus 86, Mombasa 74: Manaus leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Manaus 12, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Manaus 35, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Manaus 27, Mombasa 30: Mombasa leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Manaus 36, Mombasa 35: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Manaus 63, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manaus 54, Mombasa 22: Manaus leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manaus 20, Mombasa 40: Mombasa leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manaus and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Manaus
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManausMombasa
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsCN60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation92 m50 m
Main airportEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManausMombasa
City population2,303,7321,208,333
People per km²2024,100
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.