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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Atlanta or Nuevo 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 Atlanta for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo 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. Atlanta 10, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Atlanta leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Atlanta leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Atlanta leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Atlanta leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Atlanta leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Atlanta leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Atlanta
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AtlantaNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Atlanta 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.

Nuevo 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaNuevo Vallarta
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m3 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaNuevo Vallarta
City population498,7151,301
People per km²1,433-
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. 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.