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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Essaouira 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 Essaouira for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Essaouira 47, Udaipur 5: Essaouira leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Udaipur 42: Essaouira leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Udaipur 18: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Udaipur 44: Essaouira leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Udaipur 32: Essaouira leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Udaipur 28: Essaouira leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Udaipur 45: Essaouira leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Essaouira
45match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
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

Essaouira 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.

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. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraUdaipur
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightHindi, English
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15108 or 112
Elevation11 m578 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraUdaipur
City population82,962451,100
People per km²16,59212,192
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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.