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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Udaipur?

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 Arequipa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Udaipur’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. Arequipa 8, Udaipur 5: Arequipa leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Udaipur 42: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Udaipur 18: Arequipa leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Udaipur 44: Arequipa leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Udaipur 32: Arequipa leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Udaipur 28: Arequipa leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Udaipur 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaUdaipur
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaHindi, English
CurrencySol (PEN)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+5:30
Emergency number111 or 911108 or 112
Elevation2,335 m578 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaUdaipur
City population1,008,290451,100
People per km²1,55112,192
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.