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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • shopping
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Montevideo 57: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Montevideo 54: Bangkok leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Montevideo 50: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Montevideo 34: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Montevideo 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Montevideo 36: Bangkok leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Montevideo 42: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Montevideo 38: Bangkok leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on shopping and prices with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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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BangkokMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokMontevideo
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m41 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMontevideo
City population5,676,6481,302,954
People per km²3,6191,785
Museums within 10 km5936
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.