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The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Petra 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 Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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. Petra and Udaipur are level on 5.
Food & drink. Petra 22, Udaipur 42: Udaipur leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Petra 85, Udaipur 66: Petra leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Petra 5, Udaipur 18: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Petra 78, Udaipur 44: Petra leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Petra 30, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Petra 25, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Petra 25, Udaipur 28: Udaipur leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Petra 18, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Petra 45, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Petra 10, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Petra 28, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Petra and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

Udaipur
Best match
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.

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 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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PetraUdaipur

Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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.

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. Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePetraUdaipur
Official languageArabicHindi, English
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation850 m578 m
Main airportKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasurePetraUdaipur
City population-451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km23
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.