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Punta del Este
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Photos: Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Punta del Este or Singapore?

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 Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’s own page.

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’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. Punta del Este 72, Singapore 40: Punta del Este leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Singapore 50: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Singapore 45: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Singapore 25: Punta del Este leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Singapore 25: Singapore leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Singapore.

Your match

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

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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. Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteSingapore
Official language-English, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation11 m21 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteSingapore
City population9,2775,866,139
People per km²4558,158
Museums within 10 km540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.