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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Salt Lake City?

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
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Montevideo leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Salt Lake City 40: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Salt Lake City 42: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Salt Lake City 30: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 56 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Salt Lake City 34: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Salt Lake City 42: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo and Salt Lake City are level on 36.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Salt Lake City 40: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Salt Lake City 55: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo and Salt Lake City are level on 38.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Salt Lake City.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSalt Lake City
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m1,288 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSalt Lake City
City population1,302,954199,723
People per km²1,785690
Museums within 10 km3612
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.