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The Colosseum, Rome
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The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
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Photos: Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Rome 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 Rome for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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. Rome 50, Windhoek 4: Rome leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Rome 82, Windhoek 36: Rome leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Rome 99, Windhoek 30: Rome leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Rome 58, Windhoek 25: Rome leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rome 58, Windhoek 52: Rome leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Rome 92, Windhoek 14: Rome leads by 78 points.
Good for families. Rome 50, Windhoek 30: Rome leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Rome 60, Windhoek 22: Rome leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Rome 72, Windhoek 30: Rome leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Rome 38, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rome 68, Windhoek 18: Rome leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rome 40, Windhoek 30: Rome leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rome and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 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

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRomeWindhoek
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
Elevation21 m1,650 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeWindhoek
City population2,748,109486,169
People per km²2,13595
Museums within 10 km1785
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
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.