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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Austin 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 Austin for

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • wellness

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. Austin 30, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Sayulita 42: Austin leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Sayulita 7: Austin leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Sayulita 33: Austin leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Sayulita 42: Austin leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Sayulita 42: Austin leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Sayulita 33: Austin leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Sayulita 12: Austin leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Austin
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 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

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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAustinSayulita
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation149 m2 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinSayulita
City population961,8553,390
People per km²1,217-
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.