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Uruguay

3 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Montevideo
Currency: UYU; Uruguayan Peso
Local time: Uruguay Standard TimeUTC-03:00
Calling code: +598
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C, F, I and L

Facts

Uruguay in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Montevideo
Currency: Uruguayan Peso UYUToday's indicative rate: UYU 10 ≈ USD 0.249Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish
Time zones: Uruguay Standard TimeUTC-03:00
Calling code: +598
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C, F, I and L230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 3,384,688 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 176,220 km²
Internet domain: .uy
Land borders: Argentina Brazil

When to go

Climate across Uruguay

On these averages, Montevideo has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in October to April.

Mild to warm and dry
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The main cities, month by month
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Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Uruguay is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Uruguay

All 3 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

MontevideoCapitalMontevideo Department1,270,737

Smaller places with an airport · 2

Airports

Airports in Uruguay

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

MVDCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International AirportMontevideo

Medium airports · 2

Photographs

Uruguay in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Montevideo
Photo: Marcelo Campi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Uruguay

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

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