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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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. La Romana 84, Montevideo 55: La Romana leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Montevideo 34: La Romana leads by 28 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Montevideo 55: La Romana leads by 1 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Montevideo 42: La Romana leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Montevideo 38: La Romana leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Montevideo.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMontevideo
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 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

MeasureLa RomanaMontevideo
City population139,2381,302,954
People per km²5121,785
Museums within 10 km036
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.