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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Montevideo?

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 Antwerp for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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. Antwerp 15, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Montevideo 57: Antwerp leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Montevideo 54: Antwerp leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Montevideo 50: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Montevideo 34: Montevideo leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Montevideo 55: Antwerp leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Montevideo 55: Antwerp leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Montevideo 54: Antwerp leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Montevideo 36: Antwerp leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Montevideo 57: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpMontevideo
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m41 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpMontevideo
City population529,2471,302,954
People per km²2,5421,785
Museums within 10 km3836
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.