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The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

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

Snowbird 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 Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. Snowbird 5, Windhoek 4: Snowbird leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Snowbird 20, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Snowbird 5, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Snowbird 9, Windhoek 25: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Snowbird 92, Windhoek 52: Snowbird leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Snowbird 47, Windhoek 14: Snowbird leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Snowbird 42, Windhoek 30: Snowbird leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Snowbird 40, Windhoek 22: Snowbird leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Snowbird 8, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Snowbird 15, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Snowbird 8, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Snowbird 40, Windhoek 30: Snowbird leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Snowbird and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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.

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
15 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

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSnowbirdWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,479 m1,650 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSnowbirdWindhoek
City population-486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.