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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santiago 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 Santiago for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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. Santiago 12, Udaipur 5: Santiago leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Udaipur 42: Santiago leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Santiago 60, Udaipur 18: Santiago leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Udaipur 44: Santiago leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Udaipur 68: Santiago leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Santiago 57, Udaipur 32: Santiago leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Santiago 68, Udaipur 28: Santiago leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago 52, Udaipur 48: Santiago leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Santiago 58, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Udaipur 32: Santiago leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Santiago
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
10 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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SantiagoUdaipur

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. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoUdaipur
Official languageSpanishHindi, English
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132108 or 112
Elevation575 m578 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoUdaipur
City population6,257,516451,100
People per km²7,46812,192
Museums within 10 km543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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). 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.