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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Montevideo or Zadar?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Zadar for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Zadar 45: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Zadar 38: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Montevideo and Zadar are level on 55.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Zadar 27: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Zadar 28: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Zadar 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 Zadar.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Zadar 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoZadar
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m5 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoZadar
City population1,302,95470,779
People per km²1,785-
Museums within 10 km361
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.