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Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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 Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’s own page.

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • 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. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 84, Udaipur 5: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 40, Udaipur 42: Udaipur leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30, Udaipur 18: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78, Udaipur 44: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35, Udaipur 32: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15, Udaipur 28: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70, Udaipur 45: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Udaipur
Best match
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °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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Where the figures come from

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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.

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 Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta Teresa, Costa RicaUdaipur
Official languageSpanishHindi, English
CurrencyCosta Rican Colon (CRC)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation19 m578 m
Main airportDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSanta Teresa, Costa RicaUdaipur
City population-451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.