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Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Naples 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 Naples for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Windhoek for

Windhoek does not lead in any category we score.

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. Naples 50, Windhoek 4: Naples leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Naples 83, Windhoek 36: Naples leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Naples 87, Windhoek 30: Naples leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Naples 60, Windhoek 25: Naples leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples 77, Windhoek 52: Naples leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Naples 96, Windhoek 14: Naples leads by 82 points.
Good for families. Naples 45, Windhoek 30: Naples leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Naples 54, Windhoek 22: Naples leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Naples 60, Windhoek 30: Naples leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Naples 63, Windhoek 62: Naples leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples 66, Windhoek 18: Naples leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples 44, Windhoek 30: Naples leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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Where the figures come from

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaplesWindhoek
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m1,650 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesWindhoek
City population913,462486,169
People per km²7,67695
Museums within 10 km655
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.