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The cathedral of Santa Marta, Santa Marta
Santa MartaThe cathedral of Santa Marta
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Santa Marta by Oliver H, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Marta 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 Santa Marta for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • 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. Santa Marta 70, Udaipur 5: Santa Marta leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Santa Marta 44, Udaipur 42: Santa Marta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Marta 34, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Santa Marta 50, Udaipur 18: Santa Marta leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Marta 84, Udaipur 44: Santa Marta leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Santa Marta 38, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Santa Marta 40, Udaipur 32: Santa Marta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Santa Marta 38, Udaipur 28: Santa Marta leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Marta 27, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Santa Marta 80, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Marta 17, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Marta 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: Santa Marta and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Santa Marta
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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.

Santa Marta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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Santa MartaUdaipur

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. Santa Marta: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Marta / Simon Bolivar (11.9 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta MartaUdaipur
Official languageSpanishHindi, English
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+5:30
Emergency number123108 or 112
Elevation8 m578 m
Main airportSimón Bolívar International Airport (SMR)13 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSanta MartaUdaipur
City population505,915451,100
People per km²1,72312,192
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.