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Atlanta or Kathmandu?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
Atlanta

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Atlanta
49
match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AtlantaKathmandu
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. Atlanta leads by 13 points.13
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 27 points.27
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 29 points.29
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu leads by 10 points.10
Day trips. Kathmandu leads by 4 points.4
Good for families. Atlanta leads by 50 points.50
Getting around. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 5 points.5
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 57 points.57
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta leads by 34 points.34
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 12 points.12
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Kathmandu.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAtlantaKathmandu
Daytime high32 °C29 °C
Night-time low22 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month121 mm384 mm
SunshineNo figure4 hours a day
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
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N
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Daytime high, °C
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7

Where the figures come from

Atlanta's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaKathmandu
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 35 m
€459-552
KTM · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 15 m
€415-478
KTM · 4 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaKathmandu
Official language-Nepali
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number911Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation225 m1,300 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaKathmandu
City population498,715845,767
People per km²1,43317,121
Museums within 10 km279
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.