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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Mombasa or Puerto Escondido?

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 Mombasa for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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. Mombasa and Puerto Escondido are level on 82.
Food & drink. Mombasa 60, Puerto Escondido 48: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, Puerto Escondido 8: Mombasa leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, Puerto Escondido 45: Mombasa leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, Puerto Escondido 35: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Mombasa 45, Puerto Escondido 42: Mombasa leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, Puerto Escondido 22: Mombasa leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, Puerto Escondido 68: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, Puerto Escondido 12: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa 40, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Puerto Escondido in July

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

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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. Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaPuerto Escondido
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999911
Elevation50 m60 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaPuerto Escondido
City population1,208,33329,903
People per km²4,100-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.