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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Tokyo?

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 Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 63 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and getting around 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation41 m6 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoTokyo
City population1,302,95414,264,798
People per km²1,7856,501
Museums within 10 km36192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.