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A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Samarkand or Turin?

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 Samarkand for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Turin for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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. Samarkand 4, Turin 12: Turin leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Samarkand 54, Turin 81: Turin leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Samarkand 84, Turin 78: Samarkand leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Samarkand 14, Turin 50: Turin leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Samarkand 40, Turin 80: Turin leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Samarkand 72, Turin 84: Turin leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Samarkand 30, Turin 57: Turin leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Samarkand 58, Turin 68: Turin leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Samarkand 42, Turin 58: Turin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Samarkand 80, Turin 58: Samarkand leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Samarkand 24, Turin 65: Turin leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Samarkand 32, Turin 40: Turin leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Samarkand and Turin.

Your match

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

Samarkand
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Turin 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. Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSamarkandTurin
Official languageUzbekItalian
CurrencyUzbekistan Sum (UZS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation702 m239 m
Main airportSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSamarkandTurin
City population546,303841,600
People per km²5,0586,474
Museums within 10 km1172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.