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Palm Springs
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • 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. Palm Springs 7, Windhoek 4: Palm Springs leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Windhoek 36: Palm Springs leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Windhoek 30: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Windhoek 25: Palm Springs leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Windhoek 52: Palm Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Windhoek 14: Palm Springs leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Windhoek 30: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs and Windhoek are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Windhoek 30: Palm Springs leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Windhoek 18: Palm Springs leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Windhoek 30: Palm Springs leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
Best match
42match

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

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
14 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

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m1,650 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsWindhoek
City population44,575486,169
People per km²18195
Museums within 10 km35
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.