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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Montevideo or Warsaw?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • prices
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Montevideo leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Warsaw 47: Warsaw leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Warsaw 52: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Warsaw 35: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and shopping 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoWarsaw
Official language-Polish
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m118 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoWarsaw
City population1,302,9541,862,402
People per km²1,7853,601
Museums within 10 km36117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.