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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Mombasa or Salt Lake City?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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 82, Salt Lake City 12: Mombasa leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Mombasa 60, Salt Lake City 40: Mombasa leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, Salt Lake City 42: Mombasa leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, Salt Lake City 30: Mombasa leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, Salt Lake City 34: Mombasa leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Mombasa 45, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, Salt Lake City 40: Mombasa leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa 40, Salt Lake City 38: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MombasaSalt Lake City

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. Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaSalt Lake City
Official languageEnglish, Swahili-
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999911
Elevation50 m1,288 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaSalt Lake City
City population1,208,333199,723
People per km²4,100690
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.