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The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Steamboat Springs 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 Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Steamboat Springs 7, Udaipur 5: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Steamboat Springs 30, Udaipur 42: Udaipur leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Steamboat Springs 14, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Steamboat Springs 20, Udaipur 18: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Steamboat Springs 88, Udaipur 44: Steamboat Springs leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Steamboat Springs 12, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Steamboat Springs 62, Udaipur 32: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Steamboat Springs 46, Udaipur 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Steamboat Springs 22, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Steamboat Springs 17, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. Steamboat Springs 28, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Steamboat Springs 70, Udaipur 45: Steamboat Springs leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Steamboat Springs and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Steamboat Springs
35match

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

Udaipur
Best match
43match

Wins on prices 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.

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
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

Steamboat Springs 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. Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSteamboat SpringsUdaipur
Official language-Hindi, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation2,052 m578 m
Main airportYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSteamboat SpringsUdaipur
City population13,224451,100
People per km²50312,192
Museums within 10 km03
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.