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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sedona 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 Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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. Sedona 16, Windhoek 4: Sedona leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Windhoek 52: Sedona leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Windhoek 14: Sedona leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Windhoek 30: Sedona leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Sedona and Windhoek are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Windhoek 30: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Windhoek 30: Sedona leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Sedona
Best match
36match

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

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 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

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,319 m1,650 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaWindhoek
City population9,684486,169
People per km²19595
Museums within 10 km05
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.