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Punta del Este

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • getting around

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. Atlanta 10, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Punta del Este 45: Atlanta leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Punta del Este 22: Atlanta leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Punta del Este 60: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Punta del Este 55: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Punta del Este 45: Atlanta leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Punta del Este 55: Atlanta leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Punta del Este 35: Punta del Este leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Punta del Este 42: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Punta del Este 20: Atlanta leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Punta del Este 22: Atlanta leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Punta del Este 32: Atlanta leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Atlanta
Best match
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Punta del Este
42match

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

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

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.

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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaPunta del Este
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 m11 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaPunta del Este
City population498,7159,277
People per km²1,433455
Museums within 10 km275
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.