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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Taipei 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 Taipei for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Windhoek for

Windhoek does not lead in any category we score.

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. Taipei 40, Windhoek 4: Taipei leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Windhoek 36: Taipei leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Windhoek 30: Taipei leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Windhoek 25: Taipei leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Windhoek 52: Taipei leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Windhoek 14: Taipei leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Windhoek 30: Taipei leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Windhoek 22: Taipei leads by 64 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Windhoek 30: Taipei leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Windhoek 62: Taipei leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Windhoek 18: Taipei leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Windhoek 30: Taipei leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

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

Taipei 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. Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiWindhoek
Official languageTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialectEnglish
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119112
Elevation10 m1,650 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiWindhoek
City population2,429,429486,169
People per km²8,93895
Museums within 10 km695
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.