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Punta del Este
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Punta del Este or Tallinn?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Tallinn for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Punta del Este leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Tallinn 44: Punta del Este leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este and Tallinn are level on 55.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Tallinn 40: Punta del Este leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Tallinn.

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.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m28 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteTallinn
City population9,277457,572
People per km²4552,871
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.