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Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Chiang Mai 6, Udaipur 5: Chiang Mai leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Chiang Mai 78, Udaipur 42: Chiang Mai leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Chiang Mai 65, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Chiang Mai 45, Udaipur 18: Chiang Mai leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chiang Mai 73, Udaipur 44: Chiang Mai leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Chiang Mai 48, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Chiang Mai 55, Udaipur 32: Chiang Mai leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Chiang Mai 38, Udaipur 28: Chiang Mai leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Chiang Mai 62, Udaipur 48: Chiang Mai leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Chiang Mai 90, Udaipur 86: Chiang Mai leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chiang Mai 30, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chiang Mai 82, Udaipur 45: Chiang Mai leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chiang Mai and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Chiang Mai
Best match
56match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 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. Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChiang MaiUdaipur
Official languageThaiHindi, English
CurrencyBaht (THB)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199108 or 112
Elevation310 m578 m
Main airportChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureChiang MaiUdaipur
City population1,198,000451,100
People per km²2,95812,192
Museums within 10 km63
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.