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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Acapulco or Windhoek?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Acapulco for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Acapulco’s own page.

Choose Windhoek for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Acapulco 80, Windhoek 4: Acapulco leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Windhoek 36: Acapulco leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Windhoek 25: Acapulco leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Windhoek 52: Windhoek leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Windhoek 14: Acapulco leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Windhoek 30: Acapulco leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Windhoek 22: Acapulco leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Windhoek 30: Acapulco leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Windhoek 62: Acapulco leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Windhoek 18: Acapulco leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Windhoek 30: Acapulco leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Windhoek.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Acapulco
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AcapulcoWindhoek

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoWindhoek
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation18 m1,650 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoWindhoek
City population658,609486,169
People per km²35095
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.