Montevideo Cost of Living: Overview
What it costs to live and work remotely from Montevideo, broken down by category.
Montevideo runs more expensive than most of Latin America on this site, closer to Buenos Aires without the currency volatility — Uruguay's peso has a much more stable recent history than Argentina's, which matters for anyone burned by budgeting in a currency that moves fast.
- 1BR apartment, city center — $550-1,100/month, with Pocitos, Cordón, and Parque Rodó the most common nomad-popular neighborhoods; furnished extended-stay units in Centro/Cordón run toward the middle of that range
- Coworking, monthly — several established networks exist (Sinergia's multi-location group, the Cowork LATAM franchise), but specific published monthly pricing is genuinely less consistent across sources than Montevideo's rent data — confirm current rates directly with a specific space rather than trust a general figure here
- Eating out, per meal — reliable Montevideo-specific per-meal figures are similarly thinner in available sources than the rent data; budget generously relative to other South American capitals, since Uruguay is genuinely one of the more expensive countries on this list, not one of the cheaper ones
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