Montevideo

INE calculates rent from rental guarantee registries, July 2026. The average for existing contracts in Montevideo is 23,472 pesos a month, for new contracts of the same month 24,073. By neighbourhood, existing contracts: Punta Gorda 33,147, Malvín 29,130, Punta Carretas 28,959, Carrasco Norte 28,825, Pocitos 28,018, Parque Rodó 27,187, La Blanqueada 26,210, Centro 23,124, Ciudad Vieja 22,054. Two caveats without which the figure is misleading: it is a trimmed mean across all housing types, not for a family two-bedroom, and existing contracts include ones signed several years ago, so they are lower than what is being asked today. The sample covers about 55.4% of the country's rental market, and 70.68% of all contracts are in Montevideo. Carrasco is deliberately not listed in this line: on the INE map it appears twice with different values (18,673 with 111 contracts and 33,976 with 186), the document does not explain which area is which, so one of the figures cannot be quoted as “rent in Carrasco”.

Gallito listings on 28 September 2026, first page. Pocitos: 128 listings for a two-bedroom, prices in pesos from 21,500 to 78,000, median for the first page 39,000; some are listed in dollars, where the median is 1,200. Punta Carretas: 91 listings, in pesos 35,000–85,000 with a median of 50,000, in dollars a median of 1,890. Centro: 71 listings, in pesos 19,900–65,000 with a median of 29,900. Carrasco, three-bedroom houses: 33 listings, in dollars 2,300–5,500 with a median of 2,500. These are asking prices, and the first page contains promoted listings, so the sample is skewed upward relative to the real median. The gap with the official 28,018 pesos for Pocitos shows what a new contract costs compared with an old one.

INE calculates the median from registrations of the Dirección General de Registros and converts the amounts to dollars at the BROU selling rate on the day of the transaction. June 2026: Montevideo 118,000 dollars, all of Uruguay 85,000; over 12 months the national median fell by 5.56%. In 2026 the median for Montevideo stayed in the range of 118,000–126,950 dollars. The calculation includes not only apartments and houses but also commercial and industrial properties, so this is a guide to the market as a whole, not the price of a specific family apartment. In July 2026, 4,769 transactions were registered nationwide, 35.29% of them in Montevideo.

Gallito on 28 September 2026: 723 listings for sale of two-bedroom apartments in Pocitos. On the first page of results prices run from 120,000 to 680,000 dollars, median for the first page 298,000, median area 72 m². The first page consists of promoted listings, so the figure is skewed upward. It is worth comparing it with the official median of transactions across all of Montevideo for June 2026 - 118,000 dollars: Pocitos is the upper third of the market, not the average Montevideo.

INE poverty lines for Montevideo for January 2025, the variant for those who rent housing: one person - 23,440 pesos a month, two - 39,169, three - 54,233. For those who do not rent, the thresholds are noticeably lower: 14,584, 28,059 and 41,169 - the difference is the contribution of rent, about 13 thousand pesos for a family of three. This is the official poverty threshold, that is a lower survival bound: it includes food, clothing, transport and hygiene plus rent, but not private school, a car or a holiday. Values for January 2025; the CPI over the 12 months to August 2026 rose by 4.55%. The real budget of a Russian-speaking family renting a two-bedroom in Pocitos for 39 thousand pesos starts noticeably above this threshold. Note: the definition differs from other cities - this is a family of three renting housing, that is the value includes rent; it is not suitable for comparison with cities where the poverty line for four without rent is taken.

INE calculates the Canasta Básica Alimentaria, that is the destitution line, per person per month, separately for Montevideo and for the rest of the country. Montevideo: January 2025 - 6,309 pesos per person, by May 2025 the basket had risen to 6,528. For a family of four this is about 25,200–26,100 pesos a month; the basket is calculated per person, and the multiplication by four is ours. This is the minimum for food at which a family is not considered destitute, not a real supermarket bill. The data are a year old: INE's CPI over the 12 months to August 2026 rose by 4.55%, so the figure should be raised by about that amount to reach today's level.

Decree 339/025 approved UTE tariffs from 1 January 2026. Tarifa Residencial Simple: 1–100 kWh a month - 6.744 pesos per kWh, 101–600 kWh - 8.452, above 600 - 10.539; the charge for connected power is 83.2 pesos per kW, the fixed monthly payment is 324.9 pesos. A calculation at these rates for 300 kWh and 3 kW of power gives about 2,940 pesos a month - this is our arithmetic from the tariff, not a UTE bill. Optionally you can switch to a tariff with a night discount: Doble Horario gives 4.771 pesos per kWh off-peak and 12.034 in the four peak hours chosen by the customer between 17:00 and 23:00. The URSEA report on the decree states that the household category became 3.3% more expensive, below the average increase. Taxes are not addressed separately in the decree itself.

The OSE tariff for metered housing in Montevideo and the interior, outside the seaside resort zone, has applied since 1 January 2026 (decree 340/025, indexation of 8.5%). The variable part is by steps of monthly consumption: 0–5 m³ - 184.43 pesos for the whole step, 5–10 m³ - 368.91 for the whole step, 10–15 m³ - 36.91 pesos per m³, 15–20 m³ - 105.17, 20–25 m³ - 139.63, 25–30 m³ - 164.85, 30–50 m³ - 186.53, over 50 m³ - 207.48. If consumption is above 15 m³, then, as the decree states, the whole metered volume is charged at the price of the step it falls into, so beyond 15 m³ the price rises sharply. The fixed part depends on the diameter of the connection: 327.50 pesos a month for 12.5–13 mm (an ordinary apartment or house), 483.36 for 19 mm, 778.53 for 25 mm. If average consumption over the year exceeded 15 m³, another 101.45 pesos a month is added; this is recalculated every January based on the period from December to November. Example: 15 m³ a month and a 13 mm connection - 15 x 36.91 + 327.50 = about 881 pesos; this is arithmetic from the tariff, not anyone's real bill. Taxes are not shown as a separate line in the tariff table. Sewage in Montevideo is not part of the OSE bill: it is provided by the municipality, see the separate fact. There are discounts for low-income households and pensioners; they are calculated under separate rules in the decree.

The sewage (saneamiento) tariff in Montevideo is set by the Intendencia de Montevideo (under Junta Departamental decision 29.434 of 2001), not by OSE; URSEA says this directly as well. The tariff consists of a fixed part per dwelling unit and a variable part per cubic metre of water consumed; the volume is taken from OSE data. The last period for which the municipality publishes prices on its page is June–September 2025: 80.76 pesos a month and 45.30 pesos per m³. The municipality indexes the tariff every four months and there are no more recent values on the page, so today's figure is most likely higher. Example for 15 m³ a month: 80.76 + 15 x 45.30 = about 760 pesos at 2025 prices; this is arithmetic from the published tariff, not a bill. The bill arrives every two months, separately from OSE. The social discount is 35% of the variable part on the first 10 m³ a month for housing below a certain cadastral value (the threshold on the page is 680,992 pesos for the period February 2025 – January 2026). The charge applies only where the block has a sewage network. The old URSEA page (2023) names a discount of 74% on the first 12 m³, but it mixes the OSE and municipality rules; we take the figure from the municipality's own page, 35% on 10 m³. The tariff should be re-checked with the municipality.

Montevideo Gas tariff for household customers for September 2026, prices including VAT. Tariffs 52 (Residencial) and 203 (Hogar Natural, which any household customer can choose): the fixed part is 714.86 pesos a month; the variable part for 203 is 48.55 pesos per m³ up to 200 m³ a month, 42.41 from 201 to 500, 37.45 above 500; for tariff 52 it is 48.55 for any volume. Example: summer, 30 m³ - 714.86 + 30 x 48.55 = about 2,171 pesos; winter with gas heating, 100 m³ - 714.86 + 100 x 48.55 = about 5,570 pesos; this is arithmetic from the tariff, not a bill. The basis of the tariff is the ceiling prices from the government decree effective 1 July 2026, in dollars excluding VAT: 14.56 dollars a month fixed, 0.970 dollars per m³ for the part subject to VAT and 0.023 for the part not subject to it. They are converted into pesos at the interbank rate on the last working day of the previous month, which for September is 40.244, so the peso price changes every month. Connection costs 276 dollars including VAT for a new household customer and 60 for an existing point. Gas is available only where the network has been laid; whether it reaches the street you need, you have to ask the company.

The Ministry of Education guide to enrolling migrants in the Uruguayan system: enrolment in educación inicial (ages 3, 4 and 5) and in primary school is done through the Guri Familia web portal, regardless of which country the student has come from and what situation the family is in. The place is allocated by the address of the parent's home or work, by the family's preferences and by whether siblings attend the same centre - ANEP is obliged to enrol them together where possible. Documents: the child's identity document, the parent's or guardian's identity document, a carné de salud with the mandatory vaccinations (issued at a paediatrician's appointment and free of charge) and papers on the grades completed. If there are no school records, it is proposed to place the child in the last grade completed and see how they cope; the decision is taken together with the parents.

Health price decree for July 2026 (Uruguay's Ministry of Health): Costo Promedio Equivalente under article 55 of law 18.211 - 6,858 pesos; the maximum cap for all tasas moderadoras, that is co-payments for visits, tests and medicines - 880 pesos; the maximum permitted increase in individual contributions to mutualistas - 2.13%. The basic FONASA per-capita rate (cápita) is 1,819.22 pesos a month, and it depends on age and sex: for a child under one year 11,660 pesos for a boy and 9,961 for a girl, for a person aged 20–44 1,819 and 3,883. The full monthly FONASA contribution for ages 18–21 is 3,513 pesos. These are state-regulated values, the same across the whole country, including Montevideo; a specific mutualista sets its price within the permitted limits, so the amount for a family has to be asked of the chosen mutualista. The state ASSE network treats patients free of charge and charges no co-payments at all.

Preliminary crime statistics of Uruguay's Interior Ministry for 2025, presented on 26 January 2026: 369 intentional homicides nationwide against 382 in 2024, that is 10.3 per 100 thousand residents. By department, most are in Montevideo - 210, then Canelones 43, Maldonado 14, Durazno 13; Flores and Río Negro had none during the year. The capital accounts for 57% of the country's homicides. Robberies (rapiñas) fell by 10% to 15,656 a year, thefts by 8.3% to 100,337. This presentation has no separate rate per 100 thousand for Montevideo and no breakdown by neighbourhood of the capital, and this is exactly what a family needs: the figure for the department is made up of very different neighbourhoods.

Open data of Uruguay's Interior Ministry (Observatorio de Violencia y Criminalidad), a table of crime reports for 2013–2026; we counted the rows for calendar year 2025 with department Montevideo and type “rapiña” (robbery with threat or violence, including attempts). Nationwide, this table has 15,656 rapiñas for 2025, exactly the same figure given by the Interior Ministry presentation of 26 January 2026; in Montevideo there are 12,600, that is 80%. Most reports by neighbourhood: Unión 564, Malvín Norte 505, Casavalle 481, Colón Centro y Noroeste 439, Villa García and Manga Rural 405. The first ten neighbourhoods account for about a third of all cases. Fewest: Palermo 29, La Blanqueada 44, La Figurita 46 and Barrio Sur 46. Neighbourhoods where people more often look for housing: Pocitos 125, Punta Carretas 170, Punta Gorda 65, Carrasco 59, Carrasco Norte 72, Buceo 273, Malvín 197, Cordón 290, Centro 305, Ciudad Vieja 88, Parque Rodó 90, Tres Cruces 131. Of the 12,600 cases, in 6,658 the victims are pedestrians, in 2,236 motorcyclists, in 734 delivery couriers. Important: these are absolute numbers not adjusted for population, and different neighbourhoods have different numbers of residents, so comparing Pocitos with Casavalle by the numbers can only be done roughly. The neighbourhood names are given as the police keep them: some neighbourhoods are combined (for example, Villa García and Manga Rural), and 11 cases are not assigned to any neighbourhood. These are reports, not all crimes committed. We do not give homicides by neighbourhood: in the open data they exist only by police station number without a neighbourhood name, and the figure there differs slightly from the Interior Ministry presentation.

Open data of Uruguay's Interior Ministry, the same table of reports. We counted the rows for calendar year 2025 with department Montevideo and type “hurto” (theft without violence). These are all kinds of such theft, not only thefts from passers-by: by the victim-type field, in Montevideo there are 17,549 “other”, 9,883 snatchings from passers-by (arrebato), 7,158 from commercial premises, 7,038 vehicle thefts, 6,294 from homes and apartments and 6,173 from car interiors; attempts (3,110 cases) are included as well. Montevideo has 54,095 reports and the whole country 102,841; the Interior Ministry presentation of 26 January 2026 gives 100,337 thefts nationwide, and the difference of 2.5% is probably explained by a different selection of hurto types; we did not establish the exact reason, so confidence in the theft figures is lower than in the robbery ones. Most reports: Unión 3,172, Cordón 2,697, Centro 2,373, Pocitos 2,062, Parque Batlle and Villa Dolores 1,908, Malvín 1,900, Buceo 1,889. Fewest: Atahualpa 314, Colón Sureste 320, La Figurita 346, Palermo 359. Along the coast: Carrasco 517, Carrasco Norte 473, Punta Gorda 478. Thefts from homes and apartments (casa de familia), 6,294 cases in Montevideo: Unión 234, Carrasco Norte 213, Buceo 205, Pocitos 178, Punta Rieles and Bella Italia 176, Casavalle 168, Carrasco 167; least often in Ciudad Vieja 33, Jacinto Vera 33, Atahualpa 37, Parque Rodó 42 and Palermo 43. Street snatchings from passers-by (arrebato), 9,883 cases: more often in Unión 814, Cordón 698, Centro 659, Pocitos 428. Takeaway for a family: in the seaside neighbourhoods (Carrasco, Punta Gorda) street thefts are few, but thefts from homes are noticeable there, while in Pocitos and Cordón there are many thefts from passers-by. The numbers are absolute, not adjusted for population.

According to INE data for July 2026, the cheapest rent in Montevideo is in Casavalle at 15,987 pesos, in Manga 16,970, in Villa García 17,074, in Piedras Blancas 17,465. The most expensive is in Carrasco at 33,976, in Punta Gorda 33,147, in Malvín 29,130. The most expensive is the coastal strip from Parque Rodó to Carrasco, cheaper is the northern and western periphery. The price difference between neighbourhoods in Montevideo is not about floor area but about address: a 60-square-metre two-bedroom in Centro and the same one in Punta Carretas differ in price by almost a factor of two.

Montevideo municipality fares, in force from 00:00 on 5 January 2026, page updated on 31 August 2026. With an STM card: 1-hour ticket - 52 pesos, 2-hour - 78, zonal - 27, central - 38, student category A - 28.50, category B - 39.90, pensioner category A - 14, suburban transfer - 80, D lines (diferenciales) - 78. Cash on the bus: 1 hour - 64, 2 hours - 97. Frequent passengers get 2 pesos back for each ticket at the end of the month. The first STM card is free, a repeat card costs as much as two trips, the minimum top-up is 100 pesos. From 1 June the card can be topped up through the web app.

Carrasco airport (Puerta del Sur concession) is on Ruta 101, kilometre 19.950. According to the airport's map of direct destinations there are 18, of which two are domestic - Salto and Rivera, both on Paranair. To Europe there is one destination, Madrid (Air Europa, Iberia); to North America one, Miami (American). The rest is South America: Buenos Aires Aeroparque (Aerolíneas Argentinas), Santiago (LATAM, SKY), Asunción (Paranair), Lima (LATAM), Bogotá (Avianca), Panama (Copa) and eight Brazilian cities, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte. For a family with relatives in Europe this means at least one connection.

Climate normals for Montevideo in the WMO reference, data provided by the Uruguayan weather service INUMET, page updated on 8 April 2026. July: average daily minimum 7.2 and average maximum 15.0 degrees. June 7.7 and 15.1, August 7.8 and 16.2, September 9.1 and 18.0. For comparison, January is 18.0 and 28.4. So winter is cool and damp but not freezing. The WMO does not publish the averaging period for this table and itself warns that it differs between countries.

According to WMO normals (INUMET data), monthly precipitation totals in Montevideo run from 83.1 mm in June to 108.5 mm in October; adding up the twelve monthly normals gives 1,101 mm a year. The annual total is not given as a separate line in the source; this is our sum. There is no pronounced dry season: days with precipitation range from 8 to 10 in every month, and in July the normal is 86.4 mm and 10 rain days. Practical takeaway for a family: you do not need to plan your life around a rainy season, but you cannot count on a long dry winter either.

Antel price list for 2026: Fibra Básico 400/30 Mbit/s, Fibra Plus 550/40, Fibra Entretenimiento Premium 650/40, Fibra Super Entretenimiento 900/200, Fibra Ultra 1000/300 Mbit/s. There is a social tariff, Universal Hogares 150/30, with zero subscription fee and a 10 GB limit. An important detail for remote work: the plans have a traffic threshold after which the speed is cut, for Básico down to 3/0.5 Mbit/s after 500 GB, for Ultra the threshold is 2,500 GB and the drop is to 12/1. So you need to look not only at the speed in the name of the tariff but also at the traffic limit.

Antel price list for 2026, prices including taxes: Fibra Básico (400/30 Mbit/s, 500 GB) - 1,650 pesos a month, Fibra Plus (550/40) - 2,138, Fibra Entretenimiento Estándar - 2,370, Fibra Super Entretenimiento (900/200) - 3,420, Fibra Ultra (1000/300) - 4,342. All of them come with a two-year contract and include the monthly fee for basic telephony. Cheaper are only plans with a hard limit: Con límite 1 at 250 GB - 665 pesos, Con límite 2 at 450 GB - 1,196.