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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
VaranasiRowing boats below the ghats in the morning light

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Nashville or Varanasi?

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 Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Varanasi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’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. Nashville 14, Varanasi 4: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Varanasi 55: Nashville leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Varanasi 80: Varanasi leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Varanasi 10: Nashville leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Varanasi 18: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Varanasi 42: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Varanasi 5: Nashville leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Varanasi 28: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Varanasi 55: Varanasi leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Varanasi 92: Varanasi leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Varanasi 58: Nashville leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Varanasi 30: Varanasi leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Varanasi.

Your match

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

Nashville
Best match
46match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Varanasi
40match

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.

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Varanasi in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
249 mmrain in the month
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

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleVaranasi
Official language-Hindi, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation182 m76 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleVaranasi
City population689,4471,198,491
People per km²50614,598
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.