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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • wellness

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. Atlanta 10, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Montevideo 57: Atlanta leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Montevideo 54: Atlanta leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Montevideo 50: Atlanta leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Montevideo 34: Atlanta leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Montevideo 55: Atlanta leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Montevideo 36: Atlanta leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Montevideo 57: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Atlanta
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

Atlanta 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m41 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaMontevideo
City population498,7151,302,954
People per km²1,4331,785
Museums within 10 km2736
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.

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.