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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Sayulita?

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 Amman for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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. Amman 22, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Sayulita 42: Amman leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Sayulita 7: Amman leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Sayulita 42: Amman leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Sayulita 33: Amman leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Sayulita 45: Amman leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Sayulita 12: Amman leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Amman
45match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Sayulita 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAmmanSayulita
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m2 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanSayulita
City population4,007,5263,390
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.