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Punta del Este
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Photos: Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Punta del Este or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Punta del Este leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 57 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteTokyo
City population9,27714,264,798
People per km²4556,501
Museums within 10 km5192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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. 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.