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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Tulum 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 Tulum for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Tulum 88, Udaipur 5: Tulum leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Udaipur 42: Tulum leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum 30, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Udaipur 18: Tulum leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Udaipur 44: Tulum leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Tulum and Udaipur are level on 68.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Udaipur 32: Tulum leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Udaipur 28: Udaipur leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Udaipur 45: Tulum leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Tulum
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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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TulumUdaipur

Where the figures come from

Tulum 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. Tulum: 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

MeasureTulumUdaipur
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaHindi, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation5 m578 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureTulumUdaipur
City population33,374451,100
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

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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.