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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Portofino?

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
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Portofino for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Portofino 36: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Portofino 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Portofino 14: Montevideo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Portofino 33: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Portofino 50: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Portofino 29: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Portofino 9: Montevideo leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Portofino 7: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Portofino 42: Portofino leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Portofino.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Portofino
38match

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

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoPortofino
Official language-Italian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m20 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoPortofino
City population1,302,954355
People per km²1,785142
Museums within 10 km3614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.