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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Toronto?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Toronto for

  • shopping
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Toronto 50: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Toronto 52: Toronto leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Toronto 50: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Toronto 34: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Toronto 33: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Toronto.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping 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

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoToronto
Official language-French, English
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m76 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoToronto
City population1,302,9542,794,356
People per km²1,7854,434
Museums within 10 km3632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

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.