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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Agra or Cardiff?

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 Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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. Agra 3, Cardiff 30: Cardiff leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Cardiff 45: Cardiff leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Cardiff 58: Agra leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Cardiff 70: Cardiff leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Cardiff 72: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Cardiff 46: Agra leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Cardiff 27: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraCardiff
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112 or 999
Elevation171 m41 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraCardiff
City population1,585,705383,536
People per km²8,4172,734
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.