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Punta del Este
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Punta del Este or Vienna?

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 Vienna for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Punta del Este leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 67 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Vienna 50: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Vienna.

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.

Vienna
Best match
66match

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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteVienna
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteVienna
City population9,2772,028,289
People per km²4554,890
Museums within 10 km5152
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.