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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Boca Raton 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 Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Boca Raton 82, Montevideo 55: Boca Raton leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Montevideo 34: Boca Raton leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Montevideo 55: Boca Raton leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Montevideo 55: Boca Raton leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Montevideo 36: Boca Raton leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Montevideo 38: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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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Boca RatonMontevideo

Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonMontevideo
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
Elevation4 m41 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonMontevideo
City population97,4221,302,954
People per km²1,2031,785
Museums within 10 km536
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.