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The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sharm el-Sheikh 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 Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’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. Sharm el-Sheikh 87, Udaipur 5: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Sharm el-Sheikh 30, Udaipur 42: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Sharm el-Sheikh 12, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Sharm el-Sheikh 42, Udaipur 18: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sharm el-Sheikh 82, Udaipur 44: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Sharm el-Sheikh 30, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Sharm el-Sheikh 62, Udaipur 32: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Sharm el-Sheikh 22, Udaipur 28: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Sharm el-Sheikh 25, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Sharm el-Sheikh 74, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sharm el-Sheikh 10, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sharm el-Sheikh 50, Udaipur 45: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sharm el-Sheikh and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

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.

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Sharm el-SheikhUdaipur

Where the figures come from

Sharm el-Sheikh has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Sharm el-Sheikh: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSharm el-SheikhUdaipur
Official languageArabicHindi, English
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180108 or 112
Elevation1 m578 m
Main airportSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSharm el-SheikhUdaipur
City population73,000451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.