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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Nice?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Nice for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Nice 66: Nice leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Nice 64: Nice leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Nice 47: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Nice 80: Nice leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Nice 87: Nice leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Nice 57: Nice leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Nice 74: Nice leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Nice 55: Nice leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Nice 35: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Nice 45: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Nice 40: Nice leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Nice.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoNice

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoNice
Official language-French
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m0 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoNice
City population1,302,954357,737
People per km²1,7854,975
Museums within 10 km3617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.