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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo or West Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, West Palm Beach 52: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, West Palm Beach 42: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, West Palm Beach 36: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, West Palm Beach 58: West Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Montevideo and West Palm Beach are level on 55.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, West Palm Beach 38: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, West Palm Beach 23: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, West Palm Beach 47: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Montevideo
49match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontevideoWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoWest Palm Beach
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation41 m6 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoWest Palm Beach
City population1,302,954117,415
People per km²1,785786
Museums within 10 km364
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.