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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The lighthouse and the peninsula in evening light, Punta del Este
Punta del EsteThe lighthouse and the peninsula in evening light

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Punta del Este by Marcelo Campi, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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. Deer Valley 10, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Punta del Este 45: Punta del Este leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Punta del Este 22: Punta del Este leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Punta del Este 55: Deer Valley leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Punta del Este 45: Punta del Este leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Punta del Este 55: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Punta del Este 35: Deer Valley leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Punta del Este 42: Punta del Este leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Punta del Este 20: Punta del Este leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Punta del Este 22: Deer Valley leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Punta del Este 32: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

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

Punta del Este
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyPunta del Este
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m11 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 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

MeasureDeer ValleyPunta del Este
City population-9,277
People per km²-455
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.