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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Savannah?

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
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Savannah for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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 and Savannah are level on 55.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Savannah 48: Savannah leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Savannah 60: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Savannah 50: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Savannah 35: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Savannah 40: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Savannah.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Montevideo
49match

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

Savannah
51match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors 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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSavannah
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m15 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSavannah
City population1,302,954147,780
People per km²1,785524
Museums within 10 km3619
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.