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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Macau 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 Macau for

  • food and drink
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Macau 24, Windhoek 4: Macau leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Windhoek 36: Macau leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Windhoek 30: Macau leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Windhoek 25: Macau leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Windhoek 52: Windhoek leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Macau 52, Windhoek 14: Macau leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Macau 48, Windhoek 30: Macau leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Windhoek 22: Macau leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Windhoek 30: Macau leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Windhoek 18: Macau leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Windhoek 30: Macau leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on food and drink and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauWindhoek
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseEnglish
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2
Emergency number999112
Elevation22 m1,650 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauWindhoek
City population682,100486,169
People per km²5,91695
Museums within 10 km285
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months-

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.