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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. Breckenridge and Windhoek are level on 4.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Windhoek 25: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Windhoek 52: Breckenridge leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Windhoek 14: Breckenridge leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Windhoek 30: Breckenridge leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Windhoek 22: Breckenridge leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Windhoek 18: Breckenridge leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge and Windhoek are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
Best match
37match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 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

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeWindhoek
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
Elevation2,926 m1,650 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeWindhoek
City population5,078486,169
People per km²33295
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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). 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.