Climate
El Wak logs 344 hot days a year to Mombasa's 129 — Mombasa wins by 215. El Wak also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 2.
El Wak
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Mombasa
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Dinner outside
Air Quality
El Wak averages 10.5 µg/m³ (moderate) PM2.5 annually versus Mombasa's 13.7 µg/m³ (moderate) — El Wak breathes ~24% cleaner air (3.3 µg/m³ lower).
El Wak
Mombasa
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.
El Wak (263K) and Mombasa (1.6M) are 6.2x in population — Mombasa is the larger metro, El Wak the smaller; on land area Mombasa spans roughly 11x more ground.
Mombasa is roughly 8.3x the scale of El Wak
Combined population & area comparison
MombasaEl WakCity Scale Rankings
Mombasa1.6M6.2xEl Wak263K1xMombasa181 km²11xEl Wak16 km²1xEl Wak
Mombasa
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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