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The Esplanade boardwalk and its palms, Cairns
CairnsThe Esplanade boardwalk and its palms
Patrika Gate, Jaipur
JaipurPatrika Gate

Photos: Cairns by Donaldytong, Public domain; Jaipur by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cairns or Jaipur?

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 Cairns for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Jaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Jaipur’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. Cairns 62, Jaipur 3: Cairns leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Cairns 40, Jaipur 66: Jaipur leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Cairns 22, Jaipur 80: Jaipur leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Cairns 42, Jaipur 25: Cairns leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairns 95, Jaipur 38: Cairns leads by 57 points.
Day trips. Cairns 45, Jaipur 55: Jaipur leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cairns 66, Jaipur 25: Cairns leads by 41 points.
Getting around. Cairns 45, Jaipur 30: Cairns leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Cairns 28, Jaipur 74: Jaipur leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Cairns 35, Jaipur 88: Jaipur leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairns 22, Jaipur 35: Jaipur leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairns 45, Jaipur 28: Cairns leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairns and Jaipur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cairns
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Jaipur
46match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cairns in July

24 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
30 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Jaipur in July

36 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Cairns's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Green Island Aws.

Cairns 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.

Jaipur 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. Cairns: 1993-2010 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Green Island Aws (27 km from centre). Jaipur: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Jaipur / Sanganer (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairnsJaipur
Official languageEnglishHindi, English
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+5:30
Emergency number000108 or 112
Elevation7 m431 m
Main airportCairns International Airport (CNS)6 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsJaipur International Airport (JAI)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCairnsJaipur
City population146,7783,073,350
People per km²301-
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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.