Weekly note
Mombasa
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Photo by CT Cooper, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high29°C
Nightly low25°C
Feels like, afternoon34°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 266 mm
Humidity84%
Sunshine9.4 h/day
Daylight12.0 h/day
Beach and sea14 of 30 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea not measured
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. 10 rainy days, as the weather station at Mombasa Airport (12 km away) counts them: its April average over 9 years, 2017–2026 (WMO 63820). A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain.

Weather read at Nyali Beach, 13 km from the airport (MBA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: quiet. Busiest in November and December; quietest in April and May.

Public holidays in April

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Mombasa in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 29°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 84%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type G plugs at 240 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Kenyan shilling. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts, avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Kenya: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Mombasa: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

April elsewhere

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