Watamu is a town in Kilifi County, Kenya, which the census tables compiled by City Population place in the former Coast Province. GeoNames locates it at 3.35 degrees south and 40.02 degrees east, at about 6 metres above sea level, in the Africa/Nairobi time zone, which is UTC+03:00. The 2019 census counted 27,857 inhabitants, against 9,407 at the 2009 census, a rise to about 3 times the earlier figure in ten years. The entry records the place as one of the Kenyan settlements that the census tables list with their own population history.
Facts
Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Kenya: Cities, Towns and Urban Centers (citypopulation.de)
citypopulation.deTable row, population of the 2019-08-24 census
CO............ 9,407 27,857
Table row, census date 2019-08-24
CO............ 9,407 27,857
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Watamu
GeoNames page, Population
Population 27,857
GeoNames page, Timezone
Timezone Africa/Nairobi
GeoNames page, SRTM3 elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
SRTM3 6 m
Coordinates
Coordinates -3.35335, 40.02095
SRTM3 elevation
SRTM3 6 m
Part Of: Kenya, GeoNames page, country hierarchy
Kenya KE Country
On Continent: Africa, GeoNames page, breadcrumb
Africa › Kenya KE
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), GeoNames page, country hierarchy
Kenya KE Country
View the Source3. Watamu (Wikipedia)
LeadQuote, Lead
Watamu is a small town located approximately 105 km north of Mombasa and about 15 km south of Malindi on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cellQuote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell
-3.25 40.25 As
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