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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Delhi or Medellin?

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 Delhi for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Medellin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Medellin’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. Delhi 4, Medellin 5: Medellin leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Medellin 58: Delhi leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Medellin 42: Delhi leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Medellin 76: Medellin leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Medellin 66: Medellin leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Medellin 58: Delhi leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Medellin 50: Medellin leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Delhi and Medellin are level on 55.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Medellin 45: Delhi leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Medellin 80: Delhi leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Medellin 42: Delhi leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Medellin 30: Medellin leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Medellin.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Delhi
53match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Medellin
51match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Medellin 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiMedellin
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5
Emergency number108 or 112123
Elevation221 m1,405 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-19 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiMedellin
City population26,495,0002,529,403
People per km²18,9626,644
Museums within 10 km2314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.