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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antalya 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 Antalya for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • beaches

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. Antalya 82, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, Puerto Vallarta 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, Puerto Vallarta 28: Antalya leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, Puerto Vallarta 76: Antalya leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, Puerto Vallarta 55: Antalya leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, Puerto Vallarta 65: Antalya leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, Puerto Vallarta 45: Antalya leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya 44, Puerto Vallarta 42: Antalya leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Antalya 62, Puerto Vallarta 60: Antalya leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya 40, Puerto Vallarta 32: Antalya leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, Puerto Vallarta 52: Antalya leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Antalya
Best match
61match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antalya in July

35 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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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AntalyaPuerto Vallarta

Where the figures come from

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. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaPuerto Vallarta
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m101 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaPuerto Vallarta
City population2,426,356224,166
People per km²1,7124,311
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.