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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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. Interlaken 30, Windhoek 4: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Windhoek 52: Interlaken leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Windhoek 14: Interlaken leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Windhoek 30: Interlaken leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Windhoek 22: Interlaken leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Windhoek 30: Interlaken leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Interlaken
Best match
41match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 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

Interlaken 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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenWindhoek
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m1,650 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenWindhoek
City population6,123486,169
People per km²1,42495
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.