Climate
Malindi logs 149 hot days a year to Mombasa's 129 — Mombasa wins by 20. Malindi also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 1.
Malindi
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Mombasa
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Dinner outside
Air Quality
Malindi averages 9.5 µg/m³ (good) PM2.5 annually versus Mombasa's 13.7 µg/m³ (moderate) — Malindi breathes ~31% cleaner air (4.3 µg/m³ lower).
Malindi
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.
Malindi (122K) and Mombasa (1.6M) are 13x in population — Mombasa is the larger metro, Malindi the smaller; on land area Mombasa spans roughly 7.0x more ground.
Mombasa is roughly 9.6x the scale of Malindi
Combined population & area comparison
MombasaMalindiCity Scale Rankings
Mombasa1.6M13xMalindi122K1xMombasa181 km²7.0xMalindi26 km²1xMalindi
Mombasa
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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