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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Myrtle Beach?

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 Montevideo for

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

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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. Montevideo 55, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Myrtle Beach 38: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Myrtle Beach 20: Montevideo leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Myrtle Beach 42: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Myrtle Beach 46: Myrtle Beach leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Myrtle Beach 50: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Myrtle Beach 18: Montevideo leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Myrtle Beach 38: Myrtle Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Myrtle Beach 30: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Myrtle Beach 28: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Myrtle Beach
44match

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.

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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoMyrtle Beach

Where the figures come from

Myrtle Beach 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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoMyrtle Beach
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m8 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoMyrtle Beach
City population1,302,95435,682
People per km²1,785591
Museums within 10 km362
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.