Climate
Garissa logs 355 hot days a year to Mombasa's 129 — Mombasa wins by 226. Garissa also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 2.
Garissa
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Mombasa
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Garissa averages 15.8 µg/m³ (sensitive-groups) PM2.5 annually versus Mombasa's 13.7 µg/m³ (moderate) — Mombasa breathes ~13% cleaner air (2.1 µg/m³ lower).
Garissa
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.
Garissa (422K) and Mombasa (1.6M) are 3.8x in population — Mombasa is the larger metro, Garissa the smaller; on land area Mombasa spans roughly 4.2x more ground.
Mombasa is roughly 4.0x the scale of Garissa
Combined population & area comparison
MombasaGarissaCity Scale Rankings
Mombasa1.6M3.8xGarissa422K1xMombasa181 km²4.2xGarissa43 km²1xGarissa
Mombasa
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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