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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Beijing 6, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Sayulita 42: Beijing leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Sayulita 7: Beijing leads by 86 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Sayulita 33: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Sayulita 42: Beijing leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Sayulita 42: Beijing leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Sayulita 48: Beijing leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Sayulita 33: Beijing leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Sayulita 45: Beijing leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Sayulita 12: Beijing leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 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: Beijing and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingSayulita
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m2 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingSayulita
City population21,893,0953,390
People per km²1,334-
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
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.