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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Tulum 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 Tulum for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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. Tulum 88, Windhoek 4: Tulum leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Windhoek 36: Tulum leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum and Windhoek are level on 30.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Windhoek 25: Tulum leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Windhoek 52: Tulum leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Tulum 68, Windhoek 14: Tulum leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Windhoek 30: Tulum leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Windhoek 22: Tulum leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Windhoek 30: Tulum leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Windhoek 30: Tulum leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Tulum
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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

Tulum 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. Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTulumWindhoek
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m1,650 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTulumWindhoek
City population33,374486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.