Methodology · The Most Visited Temples of Rajasthan
How this list is compiled
Measured
WHAT THIS IS. The temples of Rajasthan drawing the most public interest, ranked by the number of times their English Wikipedia article was read over the twelve months to July 2026. WHAT THE MEASURE IS. Wikimedia's own Pageviews API, which reports how many times each article was requested. It is a published, primary count — Wikimedia measuring its own traffic — and it is reproducible: anyone can run the same query and get this order. That is the whole reason it was chosen over a travel guide's "top ten", which is somebody's opinion with no method attached. WHAT THE MEASURE IS NOT, and this matters more than what it is. It is not religious importance. It is not antiquity, architectural merit, or the size of a congregation. It is not footfall — no temple's pilgrim count is published in a form this site could rank on. It measures how many people looked something up on the internet, in English, and nothing else. A temple that draws a million pilgrims a year and has no English Wikipedia article scores zero here. WHY NOT FOOTFALL, WHICH IS THE MEASURE A READER WOULD WANT. Because it is not published. Individual temple trusts report attendance at melas to the press in round numbers, and there is no register that would let this site rank them against each other honestly. If one appears, this list changes basis. WHICH TEMPLES WERE CONSIDERED. Every article in Wikipedia's categories for Hindu and Jain temples in Rajasthan, plus a search for named major pilgrimage sites, giving 109 candidates with recorded pageviews. The top 30 appear here. WHAT WAS EXCLUDED AND WHY. The source category is not clean, and every removal is named rather than quietly dropped: Nathdwara (a town — its temple is Shrinathji Temple, which is on this list); Shrinathji (a deity, not a building); Veer Teja (a folk deity (Tejaji); his temples have no article of their own); Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (a mosque, miscategorised in the source); Osian, Rajasthan (a town with a temple complex, not a single temple); Charbhuja (a disambiguation page, not a place). ORDER. By pageviews, largest first. The count is shown against each entry with the period it covers.
Frequently asked
- What decides the order?
- This list is ranked on a measured basis — see the methodology above for what that means for this list specifically.
- What counts as a source?
- Only a citation that is inline and expanded on the ranked subject's own page — never a source cited on this list alone.
- Why might an entry be missing?
- A rank is withdrawn, not renumbered, when the subject it named is no longer published. The gap stays visible rather than being closed.
- How often does this list change?
- A new dated edition, not a silent edit, is how the ranking itself changes.