Mobile, as a central Gulf Coast city has a subtropical climate, which consists of mild winters.

As of the 2005 US Census estimate, the city had a population of 191,544. It is the principal city of the Mobile metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which had a population of approximately 401,427 and a population of 564,013 in the combined statistical area in 2005.

Mobile's Alabama State Docks is currently undergoing the largest expansion in its history by expanding its container processing and storage facility and increasing container storage at the docks by over 1,000%. Mobile is also in the race to become home to the nations largest military contract in history, a $200+ Billion air force tanker project which would generate over 5,000 high paying jobs in Mobile, pushing the city to very front of the nations most prosperous cities.