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Punta del Este
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Punta del Este or Vilnius?

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 Vilnius for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Punta del Este leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Punta del Este 45, Vilnius 50: Vilnius leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Punta del Este 22, Vilnius 66: Vilnius leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Punta del Este 60, Vilnius 46: Punta del Este leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta del Este 55, Vilnius 52: Punta del Este leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Punta del Este 45, Vilnius 60: Vilnius leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Punta del Este 55, Vilnius 44: Punta del Este leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Punta del Este 35, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Punta del Este 42, Vilnius 38: Punta del Este leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Punta del Este 20, Vilnius 64: Vilnius leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta del Este 22, Vilnius 54: Vilnius leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta del Este 32, Vilnius 34: Vilnius leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta del Este and Vilnius.

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.

Vilnius
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta del EsteVilnius
Official language-Lithuanian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m98 m
Main airportCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta del EsteVilnius
City population9,277619,405
People per km²4551,545
Museums within 10 km531
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.