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A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Samarkand 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 Samarkand for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • 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. Samarkand 4, Udaipur 5: Udaipur leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Samarkand 54, Udaipur 42: Samarkand leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Samarkand 84, Udaipur 66: Samarkand leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Samarkand 14, Udaipur 18: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Samarkand 40, Udaipur 44: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Samarkand 72, Udaipur 68: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Samarkand 30, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Samarkand 58, Udaipur 28: Samarkand leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Samarkand 42, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Samarkand 80, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Samarkand 24, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Samarkand 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: Samarkand and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Samarkand
45match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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

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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SamarkandUdaipur

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. Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSamarkandUdaipur
Official languageUzbekHindi, English
CurrencyUzbekistan Sum (UZS)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCFI220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+5UTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation702 m578 m
Main airportSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureSamarkandUdaipur
City population546,303451,100
People per km²5,05812,192
Museums within 10 km113
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.