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Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Lucerne by ILOVESwitzerland, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lucerne 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 Lucerne for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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. Lucerne 35, Udaipur 5: Lucerne leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Lucerne 35, Udaipur 42: Udaipur leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Lucerne 58, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Lucerne 28, Udaipur 18: Lucerne leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lucerne 92, Udaipur 44: Lucerne leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Lucerne 78, Udaipur 68: Lucerne leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Lucerne 66, Udaipur 32: Lucerne leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Lucerne 86, Udaipur 28: Lucerne leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Lucerne 46, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Lucerne 8, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lucerne 66, Udaipur 32: Lucerne leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lucerne 46, Udaipur 45: Lucerne leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lucerne and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Lucerne
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices 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.

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 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

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

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. Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLucerneUdaipur
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshHindi, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation436 m578 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneUdaipur
City population86,234451,100
People per km²2,96312,192
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.