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Patrika Gate, Jaipur
JaipurPatrika Gate
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Jaipur by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Jaipur or Phuket?

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 Jaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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. Jaipur 3, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Jaipur and Phuket are level on 66.
Culture & sights. Jaipur 80, Phuket 35: Jaipur leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Jaipur 25, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jaipur 38, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Jaipur 55, Phuket 45: Jaipur leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Jaipur 25, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Jaipur 30, Phuket 22: Jaipur leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Jaipur 74, Phuket 42: Jaipur leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Jaipur 88, Phuket 68: Jaipur leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jaipur 35, Phuket 20: Jaipur leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jaipur 28, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 54 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jaipur and Phuket.

Your match

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

Jaipur
46match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches 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.

Jaipur in July

36 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Jaipur 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.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jaipur: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Jaipur / Sanganer (11.1 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJaipurPhuket
Official languageHindi, EnglishThai
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+7
Emergency number108 or 112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation431 m19 m
Main airportJaipur International Airport (JAI)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureJaipurPhuket
City population3,073,35077,610
People per km²-6,468
Museums within 10 km62
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.