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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Seville?

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

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

Choose Seville for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Montevideo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Seville 73: Seville leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Seville 82: Seville leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Seville 62: Seville leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Seville 52: Seville leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Seville 80: Seville leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Montevideo and Seville are level on 55.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Seville 72: Seville leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Seville 55: Seville leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Seville 58: Seville leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Seville 68: Seville leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Seville 40: Seville leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Seville.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSeville
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m18 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSeville
City population1,302,954689,423
People per km²1,7854,896
Museums within 10 km3624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.