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The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Phuket 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 Phuket for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Phuket 90, Udaipur 5: Phuket leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Phuket 66, Udaipur 42: Phuket leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Phuket 35, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Phuket 72, Udaipur 18: Phuket leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phuket 80, Udaipur 44: Phuket leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Phuket 45, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Phuket 65, Udaipur 32: Phuket leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Phuket 22, Udaipur 28: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Phuket 42, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Phuket 68, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phuket 20, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phuket 82, Udaipur 45: Phuket leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phuket and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 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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Where the figures come from

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhuketUdaipur
Official languageThaiHindi, English
CurrencyBaht (THB)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199108 or 112
Elevation19 m578 m
Main airportPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasurePhuketUdaipur
City population77,610451,100
People per km²6,46812,192
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.