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Punta del Este

Photos: Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Nice or Punta del Este?

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 Nice for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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. Nice 75, Punta del Este 72: Nice leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Nice 66, Punta del Este 45: Nice leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Nice 64, Punta del Este 22: Nice leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Nice 47, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nice 80, Punta del Este 55: Nice leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Nice 87, Punta del Este 45: Nice leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Nice 57, Punta del Este 55: Nice leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Nice 74, Punta del Este 35: Nice leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Nice 55, Punta del Este 42: Nice leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Nice 35, Punta del Este 20: Nice leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nice 45, Punta del Este 22: Nice leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nice 40, Punta del Este 32: Nice leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nice and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNicePunta del Este
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNicePunta del Este
City population357,7379,277
People per km²4,975455
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.