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Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beaver Creek 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 Beaver Creek for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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. Beaver Creek 6, Windhoek 4: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Beaver Creek 38, Windhoek 36: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Beaver Creek 7, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Beaver Creek 12, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beaver Creek 90, Windhoek 52: Beaver Creek leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Beaver Creek 40, Windhoek 14: Beaver Creek leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Beaver Creek 62, Windhoek 30: Beaver Creek leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Beaver Creek 45, Windhoek 22: Beaver Creek leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Beaver Creek 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Beaver Creek 5, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beaver Creek 36, Windhoek 18: Beaver Creek leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beaver Creek 55, Windhoek 30: Beaver Creek leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beaver Creek and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Beaver Creek
Best match
35match

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

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Beaver Creek in July

29 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
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

Beaver Creek's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Eagle County / Gypsum.

Beaver Creek's station stands 268 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Beaver Creek 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeaver CreekWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,264 m1,650 m
Main airportEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeaver CreekWindhoek
City population-486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.