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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Amman 22, Windhoek 4: Amman leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Windhoek 36: Amman leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Windhoek 30: Amman leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Windhoek 25: Amman leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Windhoek 52: Windhoek leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Windhoek 14: Amman leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Windhoek 30: Amman leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Windhoek 22: Amman leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Windhoek 30: Amman leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Windhoek 18: Amman leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Windhoek 30: Amman leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanWindhoek
Official languageArabicEnglish
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m1,650 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanWindhoek
City population4,007,526486,169
People per km²2,38595
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.