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City Pairings
fair match
Yaoundé, Cameroon and Mombasa, Kenya are a fair climate match — 3,248 km (2,018 mi) apart. Yaoundé is Köppen zone Aw; Mombasa is As.
See Yaoundé on the interactive map →Yaoundé is classed tropical savanna (Aw) while Mombasa is tropical savanna, dry summer (As) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. They are about 3,248 km (2,018 mi) apart, so Mombasa is a reachable stand-in when you want Yaoundé’s weather elsewhere.
It is a fair match — close on the main numbers, with a few seasonal quirks between Yaoundé and Mombasa. January means differ by 4°C (Mombasa warmer); July by 2°C (Mombasa warmer). Monthly rainfall stays within 5 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine: Mombasa averages 10.9 hours a day across the two months vs 8.9 in Yaoundé (2.0 h/day more; January 11.3 h vs 10 h, July 10.6 h vs 7.8 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 11 µg/m³ in Mombasa vs 18 in Yaoundé (lower by 8 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Mombasa runs about 4°C higher in January (23°C vs 19°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Mombasa, Kenya is the closest distant match for Yaoundé, Cameroon — scored fair, about 3,248 km (2,018 mi) away.
Yaoundé and Mombasa are separated by roughly 3,248 km (2,018 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
No — Yaoundé is tropical savanna (Aw) and Mombasa is tropical savanna, dry summer (As), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Yaoundé has a tropical savanna climate (Aw). January averages a high of 29°C and a low of 19°C with 20 mm of rain; July averages 26°C / 19°C and 80 mm.
Yaoundé averages about 10 hours of sunshine a day in January and 7.8 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 29.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 89); July averages 7.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 38).
Other close climate matches for Yaoundé: Bengaluru (fair), Kumasi (close), Caracas (fair).
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