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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo or Yokohama?

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
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Yokohama 44: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Yokohama 56: Montevideo leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation41 m24 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoYokohama
City population1,302,9543,757,630
People per km²1,7858,585
Museums within 10 km3638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.