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The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-BadenThe Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Baden-Baden by Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baden-Baden 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 Baden-Baden for

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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. Baden-Baden 8, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Baden-Baden 45, Sayulita 42: Baden-Baden leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Baden-Baden 52, Sayulita 7: Baden-Baden leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Baden-Baden 15, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden 70, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Baden-Baden 78, Sayulita 42: Baden-Baden leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Baden-Baden 50, Sayulita 42: Baden-Baden leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Baden-Baden 62, Sayulita 48: Baden-Baden leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baden-Baden 38, Sayulita 33: Baden-Baden leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Baden-Baden 30, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden 58, Sayulita 12: Baden-Baden leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden 96, Sayulita 58: Baden-Baden leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Baden-Baden
Best match
50match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Baden-Baden in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
117 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBaden-BadenSayulita
Official languageGermanSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation181 m2 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenSayulita
City population56,9523,390
People per km²406-
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.