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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Florence 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 Florence for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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. Florence 14, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Montevideo 57: Florence leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Montevideo 54: Florence leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Montevideo 34: Florence leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Montevideo 55: Florence leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Montevideo 54: Florence leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Montevideo 36: Florence leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Montevideo 57: Florence leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Montevideo 38: Florence leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceMontevideo
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
Elevation50 m41 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 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

MeasureFlorenceMontevideo
City population360,9301,302,954
People per km²3,5281,785
Museums within 10 km14136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
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.