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Punta del Este

Photos: Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Orlando 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 Orlando for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • 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. Orlando 42, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Orlando 48, Punta del Este 45: Orlando leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Orlando and Punta del Este are level on 22.
Nightlife. Orlando 40, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orlando 46, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Orlando 58, Punta del Este 45: Orlando leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Orlando 98, Punta del Este 55: Orlando leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Orlando 8, Punta del Este 35: Punta del Este leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Orlando 58, Punta del Este 42: Orlando leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Orlando 36, Punta del Este 20: Orlando leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orlando 40, Punta del Este 22: Orlando leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orlando and Punta del Este are level on 32.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orlando and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Orlando
44match

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

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrlandoPunta del Este
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation34 m11 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 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

MeasureOrlandoPunta del Este
City population334,8549,277
People per km²1,086455
Museums within 10 km115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.