Climate
Calabar logs 0 outdoor-dinner months a year to Ibadan's 12 — Ibadan wins by 12. Ibadan also leads on sunny days by 45.
Calabar
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Ibadan
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Calabar averages 41.1 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Ibadan's 42.3 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) — Calabar breathes ~3% cleaner air (1.2 µg/m³ lower).
Calabar
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.
Calabar (664K) and Ibadan (4.0M) are 6.1x in population — Ibadan is the larger metro, Calabar the smaller; on land area Ibadan spans roughly 5.5x more ground.
Ibadan is roughly 5.8x the scale of Calabar
Combined population & area comparison
IbadanCalabarCity Scale Rankings
Ibadan4.0M6.1xCalabar664K1xIbadan574 km²5.5xCalabar104 km²1xCalabar
Ibadan
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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