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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Mombasa or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Mombasa leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Mombasa 60, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, San Miguel de Allende 38: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, San Miguel de Allende 40: Mombasa leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Mombasa 45, San Miguel de Allende 32: Mombasa leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, San Miguel de Allende 50: Mombasa leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa 40, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Mombasa
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and wellness 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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MombasaSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaSan Miguel de Allende
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 m1,900 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaSan Miguel de Allende
City population1,208,33369,811
People per km²4,100-
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.