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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Keystone 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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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. Keystone 5, Windhoek 4: Keystone leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Windhoek 52: Keystone leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Windhoek 14: Keystone leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Windhoek 30: Keystone leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Windhoek 22: Keystone leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Windhoek 18: Keystone leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Windhoek 30: Keystone leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Keystone
Best match
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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.

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneWindhoek
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
Elevation2,796 m1,650 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 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

MeasureKeystoneWindhoek
City population1,369486,169
People per km²1395
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.