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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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. Oaxaca 5, Windhoek 4: Oaxaca leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Windhoek 36: Oaxaca leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Windhoek 30: Oaxaca leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Windhoek 25: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Windhoek 52: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Windhoek 14: Oaxaca leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Windhoek 30: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Windhoek 22: Oaxaca leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Windhoek 30: Oaxaca leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Windhoek 62: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Windhoek 18: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Windhoek 30: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and food and drink 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.

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaWindhoek

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaWindhoek
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m1,650 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaWindhoek
City population258,913486,169
People per km²3,02895
Museums within 10 km105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.