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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agra or Gold Coast?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 89 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Gold Coast 47: Gold Coast leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Gold Coast 15: Agra leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Gold Coast 82: Gold Coast leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Gold Coast 52: Agra leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 69 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Gold Coast 45: Gold Coast leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Gold Coast 40: Gold Coast leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Gold Coast 35: Agra leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Gold Coast 30: Gold Coast leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Gold Coast 42: Gold Coast leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Gold Coast.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
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

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.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraGold Coast
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+10
Emergency number108 or 112000
Elevation171 m12 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraGold Coast
City population1,585,705607,665
People per km²8,417433
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.