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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Delhi or Santa Fe?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Santa Fe leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Santa Fe 62: Delhi leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Santa Fe 66: Delhi leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Santa Fe 22: Delhi leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 60 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Santa Fe 45: Santa Fe leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Santa Fe 40: Delhi leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Santa Fe 62: Delhi leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Santa Fe 30: Delhi leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi and Santa Fe are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiSanta Fe
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation221 m2,134 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiSanta Fe
City population26,495,00087,505
People per km²18,962645
Museums within 10 km2310
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.