Mombasa
City in Kenya: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Downtown Mombasa: Victor Ochieng, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Mombasa is a city in Kenya, in Mombasa County. About 1.2 million people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Kenya in our atlas.
It lies at 4.05° S, 39.66° E, about 20 m (66 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Nairobi time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Mombasa. Green dots: other major cities of Kenya. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Mombasa has a tropical savanna (dry summer) climate (Köppen As). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 34°C (94°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 20°C (68°F). Around 895 mm (35 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in May.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in KenyaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Ruiru · 440 km
- Nairobi · 440 km
- Thika · 442 km
- Karuri · 454 km
- Kikuyu · 456 km
- Karuri · 463 km
- Naivasha · 515 km
- Nakuru · 575 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 186301 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q225641 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Downtown Mombasa: Victor Ochieng, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Orix and eland: Zahra Abdulmajid, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aerial Nyali bridge: Kibet Yegon, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- A lady walking on the beach in Mombasa at Sunrise: Kevoyugi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mombasa, Kenya 2013. - panoramio (7): Roma Neus, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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