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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Victoria Falls?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Montevideo leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Victoria Falls 24: Montevideo leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Victoria Falls 12: Montevideo leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Victoria Falls 8: Montevideo leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 60 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Victoria Falls 22: Montevideo leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Victoria Falls 38: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Victoria Falls 45: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Victoria Falls 18: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Victoria Falls 32: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Victoria Falls 10: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Victoria Falls 34: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Victoria Falls.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on 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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoVictoria Falls

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoVictoria Falls
Official language-English, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation41 m961 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoVictoria Falls
City population1,302,95433,060
People per km²1,785-
Museums within 10 km362
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.