Windhoek
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About
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around 1,700 m (5,600 ft) above sea level in the country's geographical centre area. The population of Windhoek, which was 486,169 in 2023, is growing due to a migration from other regions in Namibia.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Windhoek, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Windhoek
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
25° / 11°
UV High
Sat
Clear
24° / 11°
UV High
Sun
Partly cloudy
23° / 11°
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
23° / 11°
UV High
Tue
Clear
23° / 10°
UV High
Wed
Clear
23° / 10°
UV Moderate
Thu
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
30° / -1°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.1h
07:16 – 18:19local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Windhoek
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Eros Airport (ERS) at 4 km.
Getting around Windhoek
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, City of Windhoek.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.