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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Punta del Este

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Amman or Punta del Este?

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 Amman for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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. Amman 22, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Punta del Este 45: Amman leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Punta del Este 22: Amman leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Punta del Este 45: Amman leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Punta del Este 35: Punta del Este leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Amman and Punta del Este are level on 42.
Affordability. Amman 58, Punta del Este 20: Amman leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Punta del Este 22: Amman leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Punta del Este 32: Amman leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanPunta del Este
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m11 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanPunta del Este
City population4,007,5269,277
People per km²2,385455
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.