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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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. Huntington Beach 70, Windhoek 4: Huntington Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Windhoek 36: Huntington Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Windhoek 25: Huntington Beach leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Windhoek 52: Huntington Beach leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Windhoek 14: Huntington Beach leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Windhoek 30: Huntington Beach leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Windhoek 22: Windhoek leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Windhoek 30: Huntington Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Windhoek 18: Huntington Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Windhoek 30: Huntington Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches 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.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachWindhoek

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m1,650 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachWindhoek
City population198,711486,169
People per km²2,40695
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.