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The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Mombasa or Warsaw?

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 Warsaw for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Mombasa leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Mombasa and Warsaw are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Mombasa 55, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Mombasa 46, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mombasa 74, Warsaw 47: Mombasa leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Mombasa 45, Warsaw 52: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Mombasa 45, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Mombasa 30, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Mombasa 35, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Mombasa 70, Warsaw 64: Mombasa leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mombasa 22, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mombasa 40, Warsaw 35: Mombasa leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mombasa and Warsaw.

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.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMombasaWarsaw
Official languageEnglish, SwahiliPolish
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999112
Elevation50 m118 m
Main airportMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMombasaWarsaw
City population1,208,3331,862,402
People per km²4,1003,601
Museums within 10 km0117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.