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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Essaouira 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 Essaouira for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • 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. Essaouira 47, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Montevideo 34: Essaouira leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Montevideo 54: Essaouira leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Montevideo 36: Essaouira leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Montevideo 42: Essaouira leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Montevideo 38: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips 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.

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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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EssaouiraMontevideo

Where the figures come from

Essaouira 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. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraMontevideo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation11 m41 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 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

MeasureEssaouiraMontevideo
City population82,9621,302,954
People per km²16,5921,785
Museums within 10 km236
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.