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Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amalfi or Puerto Vallarta?

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 Amalfi for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Amalfi’s own page.

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Vallarta’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. Amalfi 64, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Amalfi 48, Puerto Vallarta 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Amalfi 36, Puerto Vallarta 28: Amalfi leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Amalfi 12, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amalfi 82, Puerto Vallarta 76: Amalfi leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Amalfi 88, Puerto Vallarta 55: Amalfi leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Amalfi 28, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Amalfi 48, Puerto Vallarta 45: Amalfi leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Amalfi 34, Puerto Vallarta 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Amalfi 18, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amalfi 22, Puerto Vallarta 32: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amalfi 32, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amalfi and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amalfi
43match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi 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.

Puerto Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAmalfiPuerto Vallarta
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m101 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmalfiPuerto Vallarta
City population4,729224,166
People per km²8304,311
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.