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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Bucharest 8, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Montevideo 54: Bucharest leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Montevideo 50: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Montevideo 34: Bucharest leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Montevideo 36: Bucharest leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Montevideo 42: Bucharest leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Montevideo 57: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Montevideo 38: Bucharest leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bucharest
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 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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BucharestMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestMontevideo
Official languageRomanian-
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation70 m41 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMontevideo
City population1,716,9611,302,954
People per km²7,5971,785
Museums within 10 km4136
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.