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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Montevideo or Petra?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Petra 22: Montevideo leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Petra 85: Petra leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Petra 5: Montevideo leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Petra 78: Petra leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Petra 30: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Petra 25: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Petra 25: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Petra 18: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Petra 45: Petra leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Petra 10: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Petra 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 Petra.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights 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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoPetra
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m850 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoPetra
City population1,302,954-
People per km²1,785-
Museums within 10 km362
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.