Climate
Benin City logs 1 outdoor-dinner months a year to Ibadan's 12 — Ibadan wins by 11. Ibadan also leads on sunny days by 29.
Benin City
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Ibadan
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Benin City averages 54.4 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Ibadan's 42.3 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Ibadan breathes ~22% cleaner air (12.1 µg/m³ lower).
Benin City
Ibadan
PM2.5 annual average
WHO classification
City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Benin City (1.9M) and Ibadan (4.0M) are 2.1x in population — Ibadan is the larger metro, Benin City the smaller; on land area Ibadan spans roughly 1.5x more ground.
Ibadan is roughly 1.8x the scale of Benin City
Combined population & area comparison
IbadanBenin CityCity Scale Rankings
Ibadan4.0M2.1xBenin City1.9M1xIbadan574 km²1.5xBenin City386 km²1xBenin City
Ibadan
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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