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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Mombasa or Seville?

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 Seville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Mombasa leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Mombasa 60, Seville 73: Seville leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, Seville 82: Seville leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, Seville 62: Seville leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, Seville 52: Mombasa leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, Seville 80: Seville leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Mombasa 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, Seville 72: Seville leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, Seville 55: Seville leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, Seville 58: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, Seville 68: Seville leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa and Seville are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and Seville.

Your match

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

Mombasa
50match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaSeville
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliSpanish
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999112
Elevation50 m18 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaSeville
City population1,208,333689,423
People per km²4,1004,896
Museums within 10 km024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.