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Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ubud or Victoria Falls?

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 Ubud for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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. Ubud 38, Victoria Falls 7: Ubud leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Ubud 60, Victoria Falls 24: Ubud leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Ubud 58, Victoria Falls 12: Ubud leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Ubud 15, Victoria Falls 8: Ubud leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ubud 80, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Ubud 72, Victoria Falls 22: Ubud leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Ubud 48, Victoria Falls 38: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Ubud 10, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Ubud 52, Victoria Falls 18: Ubud leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Ubud 80, Victoria Falls 32: Ubud leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ubud 47, Victoria Falls 10: Ubud leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud 96, Victoria Falls 34: Ubud leads by 62 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ubud and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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UbudVictoria Falls

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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. Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureUbudVictoria Falls
Official languageIndonesianEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCF50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation210 m961 m
Main airportDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureUbudVictoria Falls
City population-33,060
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.