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Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Penang 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 Penang for

  • food and drink
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • 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. Penang 44, Udaipur 5: Penang leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Penang 86, Udaipur 42: Penang leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Penang 70, Udaipur 66: Penang leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Penang 40, Udaipur 18: Penang leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Penang 55, Udaipur 44: Penang leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Penang 42, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Penang 52, Udaipur 32: Penang leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Penang 40, Udaipur 28: Penang leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Penang 42, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Penang 78, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Penang 30, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Penang 42, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Penang and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Penang
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and beaches with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PenangUdaipur

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. Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePenangUdaipur
Official languageMalayHindi, English
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+5:30
Emergency number999108 or 112
Elevation4 m578 m
Main airportPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasurePenangUdaipur
City population794,313451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km93
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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. 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. 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.