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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
VaranasiRowing boats below the ghats in the morning light

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Varanasi?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Varanasi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’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, Varanasi 4: Montevideo leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Varanasi 55: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Varanasi 80: Varanasi leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Varanasi 10: Montevideo leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Varanasi 18: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Varanasi 42: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Varanasi 5: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Varanasi 28: Montevideo leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Varanasi 55: Varanasi leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Varanasi 92: Varanasi leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Varanasi 58: Varanasi leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Varanasi 30: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Varanasi.

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 families with your weighting.

Varanasi
40match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Varanasi in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
249 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoVaranasi
Official language-Hindi, English
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation41 m76 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoVaranasi
City population1,302,9541,198,491
People per km²1,78514,598
Museums within 10 km362
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.