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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ottawa 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 Ottawa for

  • families
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • shopping

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. Ottawa 35, Udaipur 5: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Udaipur 42: Ottawa leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa 62, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Udaipur 18: Ottawa leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Udaipur 44: Ottawa leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Ottawa 68, Udaipur 32: Ottawa leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Udaipur 28: Ottawa leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Udaipur 32: Ottawa leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Udaipur 45: Ottawa leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Ottawa
Best match
51match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 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

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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaUdaipur
Official languageFrench, EnglishHindi, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation70 m578 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaUdaipur
City population1,017,449451,100
People per km²36612,192
Museums within 10 km203
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.