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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Palm Springs

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Palm Springs?

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

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Montevideo leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Palm Springs 40: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Palm Springs 42: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Palm Springs 36: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Palm Springs 38: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Palm Springs 40: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Palm Springs 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Palm Springs 32: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Palm Springs 40: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoPalm Springs
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m146 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoPalm Springs
City population1,302,95444,575
People per km²1,785181
Museums within 10 km363
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.