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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montevideo or York?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose York for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Montevideo leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, York 42: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, York 70: York leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, York 36: Montevideo leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, York 62: York leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, York 80: York leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, York 60: York leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, York 72: York leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, York 46: York leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, York 38: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, York 38: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, York 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 York.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

York has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoYork
Official language-English
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation41 m25 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoYork
City population1,302,954208,400
People per km²1,785766
Museums within 10 km3624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.