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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Montevideo or Phuket?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Phuket for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Phuket 35: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Phuket 45: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Phuket 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Phuket 20: Montevideo leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Phuket.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoPhuket
Official language-Thai
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Baht (THB)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation41 m19 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoPhuket
City population1,302,95477,610
People per km²1,7856,468
Museums within 10 km362
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.