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The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Positano 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 Positano for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’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. Positano 77, Windhoek 4: Positano leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Positano 40, Windhoek 36: Positano leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Positano 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Positano 22, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Positano 80, Windhoek 52: Positano leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Positano 88, Windhoek 14: Positano leads by 74 points.
Good for families. Positano 28, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Positano 35, Windhoek 22: Positano leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Positano 45, Windhoek 30: Positano leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Positano 10, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Positano 15, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Positano 45, Windhoek 30: Positano leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Positano and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Positano
Best match
42match

Wins on day trips and beaches 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.

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 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

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePositanoWindhoek
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
Elevation142 m1,650 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePositanoWindhoek
City population3,729486,169
People per km²42995
Museums within 10 km105
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.