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Sugarloaf Mountain above the boats in Botafogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de JaneiroSugarloaf Mountain above the boats in Botafogo Bay
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Rio de Janeiro by Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Rio de Janeiro 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 Rio de Janeiro for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Rio de Janeiro’s own page.

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Rio de Janeiro 92, Udaipur 5: Rio de Janeiro leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Rio de Janeiro 62, Udaipur 42: Rio de Janeiro leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Rio de Janeiro 68, Udaipur 66: Rio de Janeiro leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro 80, Udaipur 18: Rio de Janeiro leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rio de Janeiro 90, Udaipur 44: Rio de Janeiro leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Rio de Janeiro 50, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro 50, Udaipur 32: Rio de Janeiro leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Rio de Janeiro 44, Udaipur 28: Rio de Janeiro leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Rio de Janeiro 50, Udaipur 48: Rio de Janeiro leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Rio de Janeiro 60, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rio de Janeiro 66, Udaipur 32: Rio de Janeiro leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rio de Janeiro 30, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rio de Janeiro and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Rio de Janeiro
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Rio de Janeiro in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
45 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
11 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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Rio de JaneiroUdaipur

Where the figures come from

Rio de Janeiro 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.

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. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRio de JaneiroUdaipur
Official languagePortugueseHindi, English
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCN60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193108 or 112
Elevation31 m578 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroUdaipur
City population6,211,223451,100
People per km²4,93012,192
Museums within 10 km693
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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.