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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • 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. Bologna 30, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Montevideo 57: Bologna leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Montevideo 54: Bologna leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Montevideo 50: Bologna leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Montevideo 34: Bologna leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Montevideo 55: Bologna leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Montevideo 54: Bologna leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Montevideo 36: Bologna leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Montevideo 42: Bologna leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Montevideo 57: Bologna leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Montevideo 38: Bologna leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaMontevideo
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m41 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMontevideo
City population387,9711,302,954
People per km²2,7541,785
Museums within 10 km6836
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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). 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. 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. 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.