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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Athens 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 Athens for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montevideo for

Montevideo does not lead in any category we score.

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. Athens 70, Montevideo 55: Athens leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Montevideo 57: Athens leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Montevideo 54: Athens leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Montevideo 50: Athens leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Montevideo 34: Athens leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Montevideo 55: Athens leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Montevideo 55: Athens leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Montevideo 54: Athens leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Montevideo 36: Athens leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Montevideo 42: Athens leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Montevideo 57: Athens leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Montevideo 38: Athens leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensMontevideo
Official languageGreek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m41 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensMontevideo
City population643,4521,302,954
People per km²16,4991,785
Museums within 10 km8836
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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). 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. 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.