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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Chengdu and Udaipur are level on 5.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Udaipur 42: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Udaipur 18: Chengdu leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Udaipur 44: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Udaipur 68: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Udaipur 32: Chengdu leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Udaipur 28: Chengdu leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Udaipur 48: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Udaipur 32: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Udaipur 45: Chengdu leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

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.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduUdaipur
Official languagePutonghuaHindi, English
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119108 or 112
Elevation500 m578 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureChengduUdaipur
City population20,937,757451,100
People per km²1,45612,192
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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). 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.