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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Puerto Princesa 38: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Puerto Princesa 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Puerto Princesa 26: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Puerto Princesa 12: Montevideo leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Puerto Princesa 45: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Puerto Princesa 30: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Puerto Princesa 20: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Puerto Princesa 10: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Puerto Princesa.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m98 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoPuerto Princesa
City population1,302,954316,384
People per km²1,785133
Museums within 10 km361
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.