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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Orlando?

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 Orlando for

  • families
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Orlando 48: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Orlando 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Orlando 40: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Orlando 46: Orlando leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Orlando 8: Montevideo leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Orlando 36: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Orlando 40: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Orlando 32: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Orlando.

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.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and shopping 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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoOrlando

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoOrlando
City population1,302,954334,854
People per km²1,7851,086
Museums within 10 km3611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.