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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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. Deer Valley 10, Windhoek 4: Deer Valley leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Windhoek 36: Deer Valley leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley and Windhoek are level on 25.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Windhoek 52: Deer Valley leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Windhoek 14: Deer Valley leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Windhoek 30: Deer Valley leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Windhoek 22: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Windhoek 18: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Windhoek 30: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
Best match
36match

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.

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyWindhoek
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
Elevation2,474 m1,650 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyWindhoek
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.