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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Mombasa or Venice?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Venice for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Mombasa leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Mombasa and Venice are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, Venice 94: Venice leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, Venice 27: Mombasa leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, Venice 45: Mombasa leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, Venice 86: Venice leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Mombasa and Venice are level on 45.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, Venice 68: Venice leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, Venice 57: Venice leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, Venice 20: Mombasa leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, Venice 62: Venice leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa and Venice are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and Venice.

Your match

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

Mombasa
50match

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

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaVenice
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliItalian
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999112
Elevation50 m2 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaVenice
City population1,208,333250,369
People per km²4,100602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.