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Punta del Este
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Punta del Este or Udaipur?

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
  • families

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Udaipur’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, Udaipur 5: Punta del Este leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Udaipur 42: Punta del Este leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Udaipur 18: Punta del Este leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Udaipur 44: Punta del Este leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Udaipur 32: Punta del Este leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Udaipur 28: Punta del Este leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Udaipur 45: Udaipur leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Udaipur.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Punta del Este
42match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on prices 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

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Udaipur 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). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteUdaipur
Official language-Hindi, English
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation11 m578 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteUdaipur
City population9,277451,100
People per km²45512,192
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.