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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agra or Queenstown?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Queenstown leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Queenstown 45: Queenstown leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Queenstown 12: Agra leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 67 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Queenstown 50: Agra leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Queenstown 45: Queenstown leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Queenstown 28: Agra leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Queenstown 20: Agra leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Queenstown 14: Queenstown leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Queenstown.

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.

Queenstown
Best match
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
9 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.

Queenstown 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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAgraQueenstown
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112111
Elevation171 m324 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraQueenstown
City population1,585,70529,000
People per km²8,417-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.