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Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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. Gold Coast 92, Montevideo 55: Gold Coast leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Gold Coast 47, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Gold Coast 15, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Gold Coast 55, Montevideo 50: Gold Coast leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gold Coast 82, Montevideo 34: Gold Coast leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Gold Coast 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Gold Coast 89, Montevideo 55: Gold Coast leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Gold Coast 45, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Gold Coast 40, Montevideo 36: Gold Coast leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Gold Coast 35, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gold Coast 30, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gold Coast 42, Montevideo 38: Gold Coast leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gold Coast and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 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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Gold CoastMontevideo

Where the figures come from

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGold CoastMontevideo
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC-3
Emergency number000911
Elevation12 m41 m
Main airportGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 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

MeasureGold CoastMontevideo
City population607,6651,302,954
People per km²4331,785
Museums within 10 km236
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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.