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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • 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. Huntington Beach 70, Montevideo 55: Huntington Beach leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Montevideo 34: Huntington Beach leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Montevideo 55: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Montevideo 55: Huntington Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Montevideo 36: Huntington Beach leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 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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Huntington BeachMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m41 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 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

MeasureHuntington BeachMontevideo
City population198,7111,302,954
People per km²2,4061,785
Museums within 10 km336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.