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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • getting around
  • prices

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. Los Angeles 60, Montevideo 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Montevideo 57: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Montevideo 54: Los Angeles leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Montevideo 50: Los Angeles leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Montevideo 34: Los Angeles leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Montevideo 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Montevideo 55: Los Angeles leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Montevideo 36: Los Angeles leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Montevideo 57: Los Angeles leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Montevideo 38: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °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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Los AngelesMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesMontevideo
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
Elevation106 m41 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 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

MeasureLos AngelesMontevideo
City population3,898,7471,302,954
People per km²2,9941,785
Museums within 10 km3936
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.