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Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Salvador 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 Salvador for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • day trips

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. Salvador 84, Udaipur 5: Salvador leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Salvador 66, Udaipur 42: Salvador leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Salvador 74, Udaipur 66: Salvador leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Salvador 70, Udaipur 18: Salvador leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salvador 52, Udaipur 44: Salvador leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Salvador 56, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Salvador 42, Udaipur 32: Salvador leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Salvador 42, Udaipur 28: Salvador leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Salvador 42, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Salvador 70, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salvador 63, Udaipur 32: Salvador leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salvador 32, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salvador and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SalvadorUdaipur

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. Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalvadorUdaipur
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
Elevation8 m578 m
Main airportDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSalvadorUdaipur
City population2,417,678451,100
People per km²3,48912,192
Museums within 10 km493
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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). 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.