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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • wellness

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. Edinburgh 22, Udaipur 5: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Udaipur 42: Edinburgh leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Udaipur 66: Edinburgh leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Udaipur 18: Edinburgh leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Udaipur 44: Edinburgh leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Udaipur 68: Edinburgh leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Udaipur 32: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Udaipur 28: Edinburgh leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Udaipur 48: Edinburgh leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Udaipur 32: Edinburgh leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices 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.

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghUdaipur
Official languageEnglishHindi, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112 or 999108 or 112
Elevation47 m578 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghUdaipur
City population488,050451,100
People per km²1,88412,192
Museums within 10 km323
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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.