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Punta del Este
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Punta del Este or Stockholm?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Punta del Este leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Stockholm 57: Punta del Este leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Stockholm.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteStockholm
Official language-Swedish
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m22 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteStockholm
City population9,277984,748
People per km²4555,260
Museums within 10 km5266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.