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Punta del Este
Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom

Photos: Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Punta del Este or Stuttgart?

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 Stuttgart for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Stuttgart’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, Stuttgart 8: Punta del Este leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Stuttgart 62: Stuttgart leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Stuttgart 42: Punta del Este leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Stuttgart 60: Stuttgart leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Stuttgart 80: Stuttgart leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Stuttgart 66: Stuttgart leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Stuttgart 72: Stuttgart leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Stuttgart 40: Stuttgart leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Stuttgart 74: Stuttgart leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Stuttgart 64: Stuttgart leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Stuttgart.

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.

Stuttgart
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteStuttgart
Official language-German
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m245 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteStuttgart
City population9,277609,365
People per km²4552,938
Museums within 10 km542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.