🇰🇪 Kenya North Coast 1 tour

Gede Ruins

The 12th-century ruins of a mysterious Swahili city swallowed by forest.

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Country

🇰🇪 Kenya

Region

North Coast

Best time

Year-round

Coordinates

-3.308, 40.017

About Gede Ruins

Gede is a mysterious Swahili town abandoned in the 17th century and now reclaimed by coastal forest — mosques, a palace, houses with intricate plasterwork, and a resident Sykes' monkey population.

Highlights

  • 12th-century Swahili city
  • Ruined Great Mosque and Palace
  • Resident Sykes' monkeys
  • National monument museum
Live forecast · Gede Ruins
29°C Overcast · 28 km/h wind
Updated 2026-05-18T16:00
  1. 🌦 30° 27° 💧 0.5mm
  2. 🌦 30° 27° 💧 1.3mm
  3. 🌦 30° 27° 💧 0.3mm
  4. 🌦 30° 27° 💧 0.4mm
  5. 🌦 31° 27° 💧 0.3mm
  6. 🌦 30° 26° 💧 2.4mm
  7. 🌦 29° 26° 💧 2.3mm
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Live wildlife observations
Recently spotted near Gede Ruins

Real observations published to GBIF by researchers, lodges, and citizen scientists — refreshed daily.

Tursiops aduncus
2026-01-02 · Kenya
Cercopithecus mitis
2026-01-01 · Kenya
Hippopotamus amphibius
2026-01-04 · Kenya
Dicrurus adsimilis
2026-01-01 · Kenya
Motacilla aguimp
2026-01-01 · Kenya
Gold-banded Forester
2026-01-16 · Kenya
Source: GBIF.org — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Best time to visit

Year-round

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