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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Colombo 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 Colombo for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Colombo 55, Udaipur 5: Colombo leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, Udaipur 42: Colombo leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, Udaipur 18: Colombo leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, Udaipur 44: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Colombo 50, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Colombo 35, Udaipur 32: Colombo leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, Udaipur 28: Colombo leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo 45, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Colombo 78, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, Udaipur 45: Colombo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Colombo
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

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

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. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboUdaipur
Official languageTamil, SinhalaHindi, English
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110108 or 112
Elevation1 m578 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureColomboUdaipur
City population647,557451,100
People per km²17,36112,192
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.