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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Windhoek?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Montevideo leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Windhoek 36: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Windhoek 30: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Windhoek 25: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Windhoek 52: Windhoek leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Windhoek 14: Montevideo leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Windhoek 30: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Windhoek 22: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Windhoek 30: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Windhoek 18: Montevideo leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Windhoek 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 Windhoek.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices and 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m1,650 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoWindhoek
City population1,302,954486,169
People per km²1,78595
Museums within 10 km365
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.