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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Mumbai or St. Pete Beach?

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 Mumbai for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Mumbai 18, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, St. Pete Beach 40: Mumbai leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, St. Pete Beach 18: Mumbai leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, St. Pete Beach 28: Mumbai leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, St. Pete Beach 30: Mumbai leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, St. Pete Beach 20: Mumbai leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, St. Pete Beach 32: Mumbai leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, St. Pete Beach 20: Mumbai leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Mumbai
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiSt. Pete Beach
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation14 m2 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiSt. Pete Beach
City population15,414,2888,879
People per km²25,563173
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.